Table 2.
Hazard ratios for coronary heart disease according to size at birth and height at age 7 years
| Variable | No of women | Hazard ratio (No of cases) |
P value
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted | Adjusted* | Adjusted† | |||
| Birth weight (g): | |||||
| ⩽2500 | 191 | 1.34 (17) | 0.20 | 0.08 | 0.007 |
| −3000 | 708 | 1.38 (63) | |||
| −3500 | 1420 | 1.24 (117) | |||
| −4000 | 880 | 1.17 (66) | |||
| >4000 | 248 | 1.00 (16) | |||
| Birth length (cm): | |||||
| ⩽48 | 726 | 1.65 (71) | 0.01 | 0.001 | <0.0001 |
| −49 | 595 | 1.51 (50) | |||
| −50 | 1077 | 1.41 (89) | |||
| −51 | 588 | 1.17 (40) | |||
| >51 | 449 | 1.00 (26) | |||
| Ponderal index at birth (kg/m3): | |||||
| ⩽25 | 689 | 0.92 (52) | 0.42 | 0.41 | 0.51 |
| −27 | 1094 | 1.00 (91) | |||
| −29 | 1004 | 0.97 (80) | |||
| >29 | 648 | 1.00 (53) | |||
| Height (cm) at age 7: | |||||
| ⩽116 | 972 | 1.17 (82) | 0.34 | — | |
| −119 | 800 | 1.21 (69) | |||
| −122 | 773 | 1.26 (66) | |||
| >122 | 902 | 1.00 (62) | |||
*
Adjusted for gestation.
†
Adjusted for gestation and placental weight.