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Published in final edited form as: Br J Nutr. 2008 Apr 1;100(5):1069–1076. doi: 10.1017/S0007114508968264

Table 3.

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between the dietary pattern scores obtained at each time-point in childhood (n 6177)^†

	‘Processed’				‘Traditional’				‘Health conscious’
	3 years	4 years	7 years	9 years	3 years	4 years	7 years	9 years	3 years	4 years	7 years	9 years^‡
‘Processed’
3 years	1	0·53^*	0·49^*	0·46^*	−0·03	−0·02	−0·01	−0·11	−0·06	−0·20	−0·15	−0·11
4 years		1	0·60^*	0·56^*		−0·02	0·01	−0·07		−0·05	−0·11	−0·08
7 years			1	0·65^*			−0·03	−0·11			−0·03	−0·08
9 years				1				−0·02				−0·01
‘Traditional’
3 years					1	0·57^*	0·50^*	0·35^*	−0·02	−0·12	−0·08	−0·29
4 years						1	0·61^*	0·52^*		0·01	0·09	−0·22
7 years							1	0·58^*			0·01	−0·31
9 years								1				−0·01
‘Health conscious’
3 years									1	0·67^*	0·61^*	0·41^*
4 years										1	0·69^*	0·52^*
7 years											1	0·55^*
9 years												1
‘Snacks’
3 years	−0·01	0·27	0·21	0·21	−0·01	0·02	0·03	0·08	−0·01	0·09	0·08	0·03

^*

P<0·0001 for the correlations between the same dietary patterns at each pair of time-points.

^†

For details of subjects and procedures, see Methods.

^‡

This pattern was labelled ‘Health conscious/vegetarian’ at 9 years.