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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Feb 25;67(11):1026–1032. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.01.002

Table 2.

Prediction of Cognitive Development from Prenatal, Obstetric, and Postnatal data.

Model 1 Model 2
Predictor B (SE) β B (SE) β
Intercept 111.62(18.28) 125.12 (18.03)
Maternal age .02 (.22) .01 −.14 (.22) −.06
Maternal education 1.69 (.58) .23** 1.87 (.57) .26**
Child age at postnatal visit −.70 (.62) −.10 −.68 (.59) −.09
Child sex (1=F,2=M) −2.69 (1.63) −.13 −2.71 (1.56) −.13
Collection time of amniotic 1.11 (.73) .13 1.00 (.70) .12
fluid
Gestational age at amniotic .18 (.27) .06 .08 (.26) .02
clinic visit
Birthweight/gestational age −1.50 (.78) −.16 −1.52 (.75) −.17*
(ratio)
Alcohol in pregnancy −.33 (.57) −.05 −.17 (.55) −.03
Smoking in pregnancy 1.04 (1.51) .06 1.51 (1.46) .08
Amniotic fluid cortisol (ln) −5.84 (1.55) −.33*** −9.45 (2.15) −.53***
State anxiety: prenatal .00 (.06) .01 .01 (.06) −.02
State anxiety: postnatal −.08 (.10) −.07 −.04 (.09) −.04
SLE: prenatal −2.88 (.57)*** −.44 −2.60 (.55) −.40***
SLE: postnatal .48 (.43) .10 .55 (.41) .12
Secure attachment −15.26 (8.11) −.75
Amniotic fluid cortisol X 6.90 (2.85) .99*
Secure attachment

Note: SLE = number of stressful life events.

*

p < .05,

**

p <.01,

***

p < .001.