Table 4.
Parameter estimates for the base model using birth cohort data from the CLHNS (n = 2653)
| 1218 females |
1435 males |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimatea | Standardized | Estimatea | Standardized | ||
| Paths | |||||
| a | LFE→SBP (mmHg/cm)b | −0.29 − 0.18 −0.07 | −0.28 | −0.43 − 0.26 −0.10 | −0.30 |
| b | LFE→BW (kg/cm) | 0.009 0.013 0.017 | 0.54 | 0.010 0.014 0.018 | 0.44 |
| c | LFE→CW (kg/cm) | 0.18 0.28 0.38 | 0.57 | 0.46 0.57 0.69 | 0.74 |
| d | CW→SBP (mmHg/kg) | 0.51 0.68 0.85 | 0.53 | 0.41 0.62 0.84 | 0.48 |
| f | AFA→LFE (cm/cm2) | 0.55 1.00 1.46 | 0.34 | 0.48 0.71 0.93 | 0.32 |
| HT→LFE (cm/cm)c | 1 | 0.30 | 1 | 0.41 | |
| SBP→SBP1 (mmHg/mmHg)c | 1 | 0.99 | 1 | 0.99 | |
| SBP→SBP2 (mmHg/mmHg) | 0.99 1.00 1.02 | 0.99 | 1.00 1.01 1.03 | 0.99 | |
| SBP→SBP3 (mmHg/mmHg) | 0.97 0.99 1.00 | 0.99 | 0.99 1.00 1.02 | 0.99 | |
| Covariances | |||||
| e | z4↔z3 | −0.72 − 0.15 0.42 | −0.07 | −1.02 − 0.48 0.06 | −0.23 |
| g | AFA↔HT | 4.03 5.68 7.33 | 0.22 | 2.13 3.63 5.13 | 0.14 |
| Variances | |||||
| AFA (cm2) | 26.59 29.32 31.87 | 26.56 28.99 31.40 | |||
| HT (cm) | 21.77 23.75 25.74 | 22.05 23.89 25.73 | |||
| z1 (LFE), (cm) | 9.08 191.51 4.63 | 25.45 98.30 171.15 | |||
| z2 (SBP), (mmHg) | 74.59 84.77 94.96 | 84.99 95.26 105.52 | |||
| z3 (CW), (kg) | 27.87 43.09 58.32 | 15.40 38.69 62.00 | |||
| z4 (BW) (kg) | 0.08 0.10 0.13 | 0.10 0.12 0.14 | |||
| e1 (SBP1), (mmHg) | 1.63 1.97 2.31 | 2.26 2.62 2.98 | |||
| e2 (SBP2), (mmHg) | 2.50 2.91 3.32 | 2.25 2.62 2.99 | |||
| e3 (SBP3), (mmHg) | 1.51 1.84 2.17 | 1.59 1.92 2.24 | |||
| e4 (CW), (kg)c | 3.35 | 4.47 | |||
| e5 (BW), (kg)c | 0.016 | 0.016 | |||
| e6 (HT), (cm)c | 1.25 | 1.25 | |||
| e7 (AFA), (cm2)c | 3.97 | 3.97 | |||
aDisplayed with 95% confidence interval as LOWER LIMIT Estimate UPPER LIMIT.
bFetal environment is scaled to maternal height, thus its unit is in centimeters.
cValue set a priori.