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. 2023 Sep 25;23:696. doi: 10.1186/s12888-023-05199-5

Table 1.

Study population characteristics and neuropsychological function scores for the HELIX subcohort

BiB EDEN INMA KANC MoBa RHEA Total P
(N = 166) (N = 87) (N = 314) (N = 153) (N = 249) (N = 157) (N = 1126)
Child sex
 Male 91 (54.8%) 50 (57.5%) 164 (52.2%) 84 (54.9%) 131 (52.6%) 88 (56.1%) 608 (54.0%) 0.9273a
 Female 75 (45.2%) 37 (42.5%) 150 (47.8%) 69 (45.1%) 118 (47.4%) 69 (43.9%) 518 (46.0%)
Child age
 Years 6.64 [6.15, 7.33] 10.8 [9.28, 12.0] 8.99 [7.56, 10.7] 6.41 [5.44, 7.81] 8.45 [6.92, 9.80] 6.46 [6.02, 7.54] 8.17 [5.44, 12.0]  < .0001b
Child ancestry
 European 74 (44.6%) 87 (100%) 281 (89.5%) 153 (100%) 238 (95.6%) 157 (100%) 990 (87.9%)  < .0001a
 Non-European 92 (55.4%) 0 (0%) 33 (10.5%) 0 (0%) 11 (4.4%) 0 (0%) 136 (12.1%)
SES
 Low 47 (28.3%) 0 (0%) 30 (9.6%) 20 (13.1%) 3 (1.2%) 27 (17.2%) 127 (11.3%)  < .0001a
 Medium 73 (44.0%) 18 (20.7%) 115 (36.6%) 84 (54.9%) 69 (27.7%) 76 (48.4%) 435 (38.6%)
 High 46 (27.7%) 69 (79.3%) 166 (52.9%) 48 (31.4%) 177 (71.1%) 54 (34.4%) 560 (49.7%)
  (Missing) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 3 (1.0%) 1 (0.7%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 4 (0.4%)
Maternal age
 Years 28.0 [16.0, 42.0] 30.1 [20.2, 40.8] 32.1 [18.2, 43.0] 28.5 [19.2, 43.5] 32.0 [24.0, 43.0] 30.9 [17.0, 42.3] 31.0 [16.0, 43.5]  < .0001b
Maternal education
 Low 76 (45.8%) 8 (9.2%) 75 (23.9%) 9 (5.9%) 0 (0%) 7 (4.5%) 175 (15.5%)  < .0001a
 Medium 21 (12.7%) 33 (37.9%) 117 (37.3%) 56 (36.6%) 48 (19.3%) 90 (57.3%) 365 (32.4%)
 High 51 (30.7%) 44 (50.6%) 97 (30.9%) 85 (55.6%) 191 (76.7%) 58 (36.9%) 526 (46.7%)
  (Missing) 18 (10.8%) 2 (2.3%) 25 (8.0%) 3 (2.0%) 10 (4.0%) 2 (1.3%) 60 (5.3%)
Conner’s
 ADHD Index 98.2 [66.4, 134] 99.5 [82.1, 135] 104 [74.9, 136] 107 [65.2, 130] 91.8 [70.8, 132] 104 [67.5, 136] 101 [65.2, 136]  < .0001b
 Hyperactivity 97.8 [65.9, 134] 102 [92.3, 127] 101 [84.8, 134] 107 [54.5, 135] 89.3 [74.5, 122] 102 [63.7, 130] 98.7 [54.5, 135]  < .0001b
 Inattention 91.6 [79.4, 135] 93.6 [82.4, 133] 105 [80.7, 134] 111 [78.7, 131] 92.3 [80.1, 134] 98.4 [79.4, 134] 99.3 [78.7, 135]  < .0001b
  (Missing) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 3 (1.0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 4 (2.5%) 7 (0.6%)
CBCL
 ADHD Problems 102 [73.0, 126] 101 [82.1, 136] 105 [77.6, 135] 107 [70.5, 130] 90.2 [75.6, 129] 102 [73.5, 134] 101 [70.5, 136]  < .0001b
  (Missing) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (0.6%) 1 (0.7%) 0 (0%) 2 (1.3%) 5 (0.4%)
ANT
 HRT-SE 104 [66.1, 126] 106 [79.7, 141] 99.2 [64.5, 142] 105 [68.7, 132] 95.0 [63.6, 136] 99.8 [61.5, 129] 100 [61.5, 142]  < .0001b
 Zeros 96.6 [58.2, 143] 106 [98.2, 139] 100 [82.8, 128] 91.5 [28.7, 148] 99.6 [78.0, 141] 97.5 [57.3, 147] 100 [28.7, 148]  < .0001b
 Omissions 96.8 [59.6, 145] 111 [102,126] 102 [84.1, 145] 103 [40.8, 167] 96.4 [73.6, 132] 91.3 [45.3, 150] 100 [40.8, 167]  < .0001b
 Conflict 99.3 [51.0, 172] 100 [45.1, 134] 99.2 [58.8, 149] 99.8 [27.0, 136] 98.9 [69.8, 204] 97.9 [-5.19, 172] 99.3 [-5.19, 204] 0.7730b
  (Missing) 3 (1.8%) 6 (6.9%) 3 (1.0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 12 (1.1%)
N-back
d’ 98.3 [68.5, 147] 95.9 [62.8, 131] 101 [60.8, 142] NA 102 [63.6, 139] 102 [68.4, 149] 101 [60.8, 149] 0.0864b
  (Missing) 26 (15.7%) 7 (8.0%) 8 (2.5%) 153 (100%) 10 (4.0%) 15 (9.6%) 219 (19.4%)

Presented are N (%) or median [min, max]. Measures of behavior and neuropsychological function are presented after transformation of raw data

BiB Born in Bradford (UK), EDEN Étude des Déterminants pré et postnatals du développement et de la santé de l’Enfant (France), INMA INfancia y Medio Ambiente (Spain), KANC Kaunas cohort (Lithuania), MoBa Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study, RHEA Mother–Child Cohort study in Crete (Greece), SES Socioeconomic status, CBCL Child Behavior Checklist, ANT Attention Network Test, HRT-SE Hit reaction time standard error

P-values for significant difference between cohorts

ap-values from chi-square test of homogeneity

bp-values from one-way ANOVA