Table 5 Association of common mental disorder and depression with subsequent 5-year change in sugar intake from sweet food/beverages.

	5-year change in sugar intake
	No. of events	Participants	OR (95% CI) β-Coefficient ^a (95% CI)	P
Common mental disorder^b
At phase 3 – Sugar intake change: phase 3 to 5
Reduction	268	1201	1.0 (reference)
No change	584	2860	0.91 (0.77, 1.08)	0.27
Increase	198	961	0.91 (0.74, 1.12)	0.39
Continuous change in grams per day	1050	5022	0.08 (−1.89, 2.05)	0.94
At phase 5 – Sugar intake change: phase 5 to 7
Reduction	210	1025	1.0 (reference)
No change	464	2410	0.93 (0.77, 1.11)	0.41
Increase	176	734	1.21 (0.96, 1.53)	0.10
Continuous change in grams per day	850	4169	1.18 (−0.97, 3.33)	0.28
At phase 7 – Sugar intake change: phase 7 to 9
Reduction	200	744	1.0 (reference)
No change	505	2206	0.87 (0.73, 1.05)	0.15
I ncrease	150	692	0.84 (0.66, 1.06)	0.14
Continuous change in grams per day	855	4497	−1.14 (−3.09, 0.82)	0.26
Depression^c
At phase 7 – Sugar intake change: phase 7 to 9
Reduction	116	764	1.0 (reference)
No change	340	2233	1.05 (0.83, 1.32)	0.70
Increase	97	688	0.98 (0.73, 1.32)	0.90
Continuous change in grams per day	533	4238	1.01 (−1.35, 3.36)	0.40

Abbreviations: No. = number, CI = confidence interval.
^aChange in sugar intake in cases compared with non-cases, adjusted for age, sex and ethnicity. ^bCommon mental disorder measured using the 30-item General Health Questionnaire. ^cDepression measured using 20-item the Centre of Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.

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