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Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 Nov 4;126(6):1157–1162. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.09.011

TABLE IV.

Pulmonary function tests by first year weight status

	Correlation¹	Weight-for-length at age 1 y
	Correlation¹	<15^th %tile	15–85^th %tile	>85^th %tile	p-value²
At age 6 y
FVC%	0.13	103.88 (11.19)	106.86 (13.90)	108.44 (13.98)	0.46
FEV1%	0.12	102.50 (12.02)	105.55 (14.44)	105.50 (11.39)	0.55
FVC	0.25^¶	1.42 (0.20)^{^}^*	1.53 (0.24)	1.60 (0.28)	0.02
FEV1	0.22^¶	1.25 (0.18)^{^}^*	1.34 (0.22)	1.37 (0.20)	0.06
FEV0.5	0.21^¶	0.95 (0.17)^*	1.01 (0.18)	1.04 (0.16)	0.11
At age 8 y
FVC%	0.25^¶	103.74 (12.26)^*	107.20 (12.60)	112.27 (11.74)	0.04
FEV1%	0.24^¶	96.42 (14.05)^*	101.21 (13.63)	103.38 (11.19)	0.10
FVC	0.30^¶	1.84 (0.30)^*	1.92 (0.30)^*	2.08 (0.28)	0.01
FEV1	0.29^¶	1.50 (0.28)^*	1.59 (0.26)	1.68 (0.20)	0.04
FEV0.5	0.25^¶	1.12 (0.22)^{^}^*	1.20 (0.22)	1.24 (0.18)	0.05

¹

Correlation coefficients between weight-for-height percentiles at age 1 y and lung function test scores.

²

Overall group comparisons from simple regression.

^¶

p-value<0.05 for correlation coefficient test.

^{^}

p<0.05 compared to weight-for-length 15–85^th %tile group

^*

p<0.05 compared to weight-for-length >85^th %tile group