Tracking of serum lipids from prepuberty to young adulthood: results from the KiGGS cohort study

Table 5 Determinants of total cholesterol in young adulthood (N = 594 persons^a)

	Male (N = 306)				Female (N = 288)
	bivariable		multivariable		bivariable		multivariable
	Beta (95% CI)	R²	Beta (95% CI)	R²	Beta (95% CI)	R²	Beta (95% CI)	R²
Baseline total cholesterol	0.95 (0.70;1.20)***	0.53	0.85 (0.70;1.00)***	0.62	0.75 (0.54;0.96)***	0.30	0.71 (0.54; 0.87)***	0.46
BMI z-score in childhood	0.16 (-0.06; 0.38)	0.03	0.08 (0.00;0.15)		0.05 (-0.09;0.18)	< 0.01	0.03 (-0.07; 0.14)
Difference in BMI z-score to young adulthood	0.36 (0.14; 0.57)***	0.13	0.25 (0.15; 0.35)***		0.10 (-0.10;0.31)	< 0.01	0.14 (0.04; 0.24)**
Alcohol use in young adulthood		0.06				< 0.01
No	0.64 (-0.18; 1.46)		0.44 (0.09; 0.78)		-0.11 (-0.64; 0.42)		0.23 (-0.18; 0.64)
Moderate	ref		ref		ref		ref
At risk	-0.07 (-0.31; 0.16)		0.05 (-0.09; 0.19)		0.02 (-0.33; 0.37)		-0.09 (-0.32; 0.14)
Oral contraceptives use in young adulthood	-	-	-	-	0.85 (0.56; 1.13)***	0.20	0.81 (0.57; 1.04)***

The regression model includes BMI z-score in childhood and difference in BMI z-score in young adulthood, healthy food diversity index in childhood and change in young adulthood, physical activity in childhood, sports in young adulthood, smoking in young adulthood, alcohol use in young adulthood and oral contraceptive use in young adulthood. Variables explaining less than 1% of the variance in both sexes are not shown in the tables of the main manuscript. The full model is shown in Additional file 2
^a6–8 years of age at KiGGS baseline and ≥ 18 + years at KiGGS wave 2
^*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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