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. 2024 Nov 24;43:100914. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2024.100914

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics (n = 150) based on maternal country of childhood residence.

Participant Characteristics Childhood in US (n = 36)a
Childhood in Latin America
Spanish
English
Total
(n = 9) (n = 27) (n = 114)
Sociodemographic n % M SD n % M SD n % M SD
Maternal age 22.89 6.60 21.78 4.22 29.40 5.74
Age of migration (foreign-born) 1.89 1.83 5.0 2.45 20.29 5.21
Foreign-born 7 78.78 8 29.63 112 98.25
English 0 0 27 100 5 4.39
Income
≤ $15,000 3 33.33 11 40.74 45 39.47
$15,000 -- $29,999 5 55.55 12 44.44 59 51.75
$30,000 - $39,999 1 11.11 4 14.81 9 7.89
≥ $40,000 0 0 0 0 1 .88
Married/Partner 7 77.78 20 74.07 84 73.68
Maternal education
0 - 8th grade 1 11.11 1 3.70 52 45.61
Some high school 3 33.33 11 40.74 29 25.44
Graduated high school 3 33.33 8 29.63 20 17.54
Some college 2 22.89 3 11.11 7 6.14
4-year college degree 0 0 4 14.81 6 5.26
Work outside home 5 55.56 13 48.15 31 27.19
Health insurance
None 4 44.44 4 14.82 93 81.58
Medicare/Medicaid 4 44.44 23 85.19 20 17.54
Private 1 2.78 0 0 1 .88
Country of heritage
Mexico 7 77.78 19 70.37 58 50.88
Central America 0 0 3 11.11 47 41.22
Caribbean 2 22.22 3 11.11 6 5.26
South America 0 0 2 7.41 3 2.63
Physiological
Nulliparous 3 33.33 14 51.85 19 16.67
Gestational Age (weeks) 28.79 1.80 28.70 .91 28.70 1.60
Cytokines: log transformed values
Cytokine Profile 4.69 .53 5.10 .81 4.81 .76
Interleukin-beta 1.40 .25 1.40 .31 1.37 .26
TNF-alpha 1.26 .12 1.38 .17 1.30 .21
Interleukin-8 .48 .18 .65 .20 .56 .20
Interferon-gamma 1.56 .11 1.65 .25 1.59 .21
Cytokines: raw values (pg/ml)
Interleukin-beta 28.55 15.67 31.84 25.00 28.16 20.40
TNF-alpha 18.70 6.06 25.70 10.24 22.34 11.41
Interleukin-8 3.29 1.56 4.97 2.30 4.02 1.85
Interferon-gamma 37.25 9.63 50.93 26.63 43.64 20.23
Pre-pregnancy weight (lbs) 155.9 34.3 149.0 31.9 147.7 28.7
Psychosocial
Traumatic Avoidance Symptoms 5.89 3.48 7.0 3.51 5.54 2.79
Everyday Discrimination 1.11 2.67 6.15 6.85 2.33 3.95

Note.

a

Participants who spent their childhood in the US (0–9 years old) based on nativity, age at migration, and years living in the US; Childhood in US participants are subdivided based on survey language selection (English vs Spanish).