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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2023 Jul 28;236(Pt 2):116772. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116772

Table 4:

Covariate-adjusted associations between prenatal arsenic exposure in drinking water and perinatal outcomes in the ECHO-wide Cohort Study, using multivariable mixed models.

Birth weight
Est. (95% CI)
Gestational age
Est. (95% CI)
Preterm birth
OR (95% CI)
SGA
OR (95% CI)
LGA
OR (95% CI)
Binary Model
 Unexposed Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
 Exposed 34.71 (−18.92, 88.34) −0.02 (−0.20, 0.17) 0.95 (0.65, 1.39) 0.80 (0.54, 1.18) 1.15 (0.91, 1.47)
Count Model
 Unexposed Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
 1-3 Windows 5.40 (−57.35, 68.15) −0.09 (−0.31, 0.13) 0.95 (0.60, 1.50) 0.88 (0.53, 1.46) 1.16 (0.86, 1.57)
 4 Windows 88.84 (8.22, 169.46) 0.11 (−0.17, 0.39) 0.95 (0.56, 1.63) 0.72 (0.42, 1.23) 1.15 (0.81, 1.63)

Abbreviations: SGA: small for gestational age; LGA: large for gestational age; Est.: estimate; CI: confidence interval; OR: odds ratio.

Note: Models adjusted for maternal age at birth (scaled), year of birth (scaled), infant sex, maternal race, maternal ethnicity, pre-pregnancy BMI, any tobacco or nicotine use, maternal education, gestational diabetes, and gestational hypertension. Estimates in bold are statistically significant.