Table 3 Odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for atopic diseases by age 14–18 according to maternal organic solvent exposure in pregnancy.
| Solvent exposure | N | Wheezing | Asthma diagnosis | Hay fever diagnosis | Atopic eczema diagnosis | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | OR | OR* | CI* | n | OR | OR* | CI* | n | OR | OR* | CI* | n | OR | OR* | CI* | ||
| Not exposed | 5851 | 891 | ref | ref | 636 | ref | ref | 812 | ref | ref | 907 | ref | ref | ||||
| Below TLV† | 470 | 83 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9–1.5 | 51 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.7–1.3 | 53 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6–1.1 | 87 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.9–1.6 |
| At or above TLV† | 20 | 3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.3–4.1 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 0.6–5.6 | 6 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 1.1–7.5 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0–2.3 |
*Adjusted for socioeconomic group, maternal educational level, maternal age, parity, maternal smoking, gender, postnatal parental smoking, and breast feeding.
†TLV, threshold limit value.