Table 4.
Adjusteda risk of adverse birth outcomes for all Swedish, live-born, singleton pregnancies without congenital anomalies from 1973 to 2004 by novel and empirically supported period of stress exposure (defined as mother's exposure to death of a first degree relative or the father of the child).
| b (SE) |
Logits (SE) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period Exposed |
Prenatal Months |
Gestational Age |
Preterm Birth |
Low Birth Weight |
Small for Gestational Age |
| 1 | 1 – 4 | − 0.30 (0.11) | 0.05 (0.04) | 0.10 (0.05) | 0.13 (0.05) |
| 2 | 5 & 6 | − 0.52 (0.15) | 0.21 (0.05) | 0.32 (0.06) | 0.23 (0.07) |
| 3 | 7 – 9 | 0.07 (0.12) | −0.001 (0.05) | −0.06 (0.06) | 0.04 (0.06) |
Numbers in bold are significant at p<.01.
a
Adjusted for fetal sex, year of birth, mother's age, education, country of origin, parity, and father's age.