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. 2023 Mar 15;131(3):037006. doi: 10.1289/EHP10723

Table 1.

Characteristics of the study population among selected ECHO cohorts (N=3,339).

Characteristic N (%) or mean±SD
Maternal race/ethnicity
 Hispanic/Latina 653 (20.8)
 Non-Hispanic White 1,687 (53.8)
 Non-Hispanic Black 509 (16.2)
 Non-Hispanic Asian 193 (6.2)
 Non-Hispanic other 96 (3.1)
 Unknown 201
Maternal educational attainment
<High school 312 (9.5)
 High school degree, GED, or equivalent 530 (16.1)
 Some college, no degree 702 (21.4)
 Bachelor’s degree and above 1,742 (53.0)
 Unknown 53
Maternal age at delivery (y)
<25 497 (15.7)
 25–29 672 (21.3)
 30–34 1,124 (35.6)
35 867 (27.4)
 Unknown 179
PSS scale
PSS t-score category 49.8±9.9 a
<Median (50.6) 1,003 (49.9)
Median (50.6) 1,006 (50.1)
 Unknown 1,330
Gestational age (wk) 38.9±1.9
Preterm birth (<37 wk)
 Yes 252 (7.5)
 No 3,087 (92.5)
Birthweight (g) 3,337.4±563.3
Low birthweight (<2,500g)
 Yes 182 (5.5)
 No 3,157 (94.5)
Size for gestational ageb
 Small-for-gestational-age 357 (10.7)
 Appropriate-for-gestational-age 2,623 (78.6)
 Large-for-gestational-age 359 (10.8)
Child sex
 Male 1,643 (49.2)
 Female 1,696 (50.8)
Parity prior to indexed birth
 0 1,783 (53.4)
1 1,556 (46.6)
Prenatal tobacco use
 Yes 200 (7.2)
 No 2,573 (92.8)
 Unknown 165
Prenatal secondhand smoke
 Yes 1,386 (64.0)
 No 781 (36.0)
 Unknown 1,172
Prepregnancy BMI (kg/m2) 26.1±6.3 c
Gestational diabetes
 Yes 321 (10.5)
 No 2,722 (89.5)
 Unknown 296
Gestational hypertension
 Yes 154 (8.5)
 No 1,667 (91.5)
 Unknown 1,518
Preeclampsia
 Yes 104 (5.6)
 No 1,751 (94.4)
 Unknown 1,484
Year of birth
 1999 28 (0.8)
 2000 330 (9.9)
 2001 310 (9.3)
 2002 170 (5.1)
 2003 4 (0.1)
 2009 9 (0.3)
 2010 122 (3.7)
 2011 225 (6.7)
 2012 283 (8.5)
 2013 243 (7.3)
 2014 204 (6.1)
 2015 278 (8.3)
 2016 287 (8.6)
 2017 283 (8.5)
 2018 286 (8.6)
 2019 98 (2.9)
Cohort
 Chemicals in Our Bodies (CiOB) 402 (12.0)
 Illinois Kids Development Studies (IKIDS) 184 (5.5)
 Project Viva 842 (25.2)
 Healthy Start 652 (19.5)
 New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study (NHBCS) 324 (9.7)
 Markers of Autism Risk in Babies Learning Early Signs (MARBLES) 39 (1.2)
 Emory (Atlanta) 424 (12.7)
 Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) 347 (10.4)
 Pregnancy and EnvironmenT And Lifestyle Study (PETALS) 124 (3.7)
 Rochester 35 (1.0)
 Kaiser Permanente Research Bank Pregnancy Cohort (KPRB-PC) 13 (0.4)

Note: BMI, body mass index; ECHO, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes; GED, General Educational Development; PSS, perceived stress scale; SD, standard deviation.

a

n=2,009.

b

Small-, appropriate-, and large-for-gestational-age were defined, respectively, as singleton infants with weight <10th percentile, 10th–90th percentile, and >90th percentile of birthweight-for-gestational-age and sex using a 2017 U.S. reference population.

c

n=3,219.