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Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 Dec 30;127(3):734–740.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.11.010

Table V.

Multivariate Analysis of Parental Psychosocial Measures and Asthma Outcomes at 3 years of age^*

	ED/MD visits		Oral steroids		Hospitalizations for asthma		Asthma Diagnosis
	OR [95%CI]	p val	OR [95%CI]	p val	OR [95%CI]	p val	OR [95%CI]	p val
Paternal major depressive episode^†	1.24 [0.25, 6.08]	0.80	3.03 [0.84, 10.97]	0.09	1.42 [0.18, 11.15]	0.74	1.30 [0.32, 5.16]	0.71
Maternal depressive symptoms^‡	1.11 [0.98, 1.27]	0.10	1.08 [0.96, 1.23]	0.20	1.16 [1.00, 1.36]	0.050	1.13 [1.01, 1.27]	0.03
Parental depression (linear)	1.36 [0.76, 2.41]	0.30	1.61 [0.97, 2.66]	0.067	1.86 [0.98, 3.56]	0.060	1.42 [0.91, 2.21]	0.12

adjusted for household income, parental asthma, correlation between twins (ETS and gestational age not significant confounders)

^†

Paternal model also adjusted for maternal depressive symptoms.

^‡

Maternal model also adjusted for paternal depression.