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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2012 Jan 28;160(6):1044–1049. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.12.022

Table 2.

Hypotheses and estimates for height and BMI differences at 48 months

Estimates for height differences (cm) Estimates for BMI differences (kg/m2)

Hypothesis Unadjusted
Adjusted
Unadjusted
Adjusted
β 95% CI β 95% CI β 95% CI β 95%CI
Primary hypotheses
High vs. low prenatal −0.47 −1.05, 0.11 −0.46 −1.03, 0.10 −0.12 −0.36, 0.12 −0.07 −0.30, 0.17
High vs. low infancy −1.21 −1.79, −0.63 −0.84 −1.42, −0.25 −0.03 −0.27, 0.21 −0.07 −0.31, 0.18
High vs. low early childhood 0.37 −0.21, 0.95 0.41 −0.17, 0.98 0.09 −0.15, 0.32 0.09 −0.15, 0.33
Secondary Hypotheses
HHH vs. LLL −1.39 −2.21, −0.57 −0.98 −1.86, −0.10 0.01 −0.33, 0.34 0.05 −0.32, 0.41
HHH vs. all others −0.91 −1.57, −0.25 −0.66 −1.34, 0.02 −0.03 −0.30, 0.24 −0.07 −0.36, 0.21
LLL vs. all others 0.68 0.02, 1.35 0.46 −0.21, 1.13 −0.04 −0.31, 0.24 −0.13 −0.41, 0.16
HHH+HHL vs. LLL+LLH −1.68 −2.46, −0.90 −1.30 −2.09, −0.51 −0.15 −0.47, 0.17 −0.13 −0.47, 0.20

N=773 for height models, and N=768 for BMI models

Adjusted for maternal age at delivery, parity, marital status, education, breastfeeding, calcium treatment group, cohort, calf circumference, height, and child sex and gestational age at birth.

Additionnally adjusted for child length at birth

Additionnally adjusted for child weight at birth