Fig. 3: Violin plot showing the effect of trial beverage on selected variables at baseline and week 52 in the complete cases data set.

a Effect on body weight. b Effect on waist circumference. c Effect on hip circumference. Primary analysis of the complete cases data set, which included all participants with data at baseline and week 52. The shaded areas refer to the kernel density (the probability that a member of the population will have a given value), the boxes show the interquartile range, the horizontal lines in the centre of the boxes are the median values and the whiskers refer to 1.5× the interquartile range. NNS non-nutritive sweetened.