Table 4. Associations between artificially-sweetened carbonated and non-carbonated soft drink consumption during pregnancy and self-reported ever child allergic rhinitis in the Danish National Birth Cohort.
Frequency of intake | Cases/N | Artificially-sweetened carbonated soft drinks | P for trend** | Cases/N | Artificially-sweetened non-carbonated soft drinks | P for trend** | |
N = 37,971 | N = 37,984 | ||||||
OR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | ||||||
Never | Crude | 1,210/25,539 | 1.00 (ref.) | 0.16 | 1,248/25,384 | 1.00 (ref.) | 0.59 |
Adjusted* | 0.01 | 0.83 | |||||
<1 serv/week | Crude | 251/4,835 | 1.10 (0.96, 1.27) | 128/2,666 | 0.98 (0.81, 1.18) | ||
Adjusted* | 0.97 (0.80, 1.16) | 0.96 (0.75, 1.21) | |||||
Weekly | Crude | 319/6,160 | 1.10 (0.97, 1.25) | 243/5,071 | 0.97 (0.85, 1.12) | ||
Adjusted* | 1.15 (0.98, 1.35) | 0.86 (0.71, 1.04) | |||||
> = 1 serv/day | Crude | 75/1,437 | 1.11 (0.87, 1.41) | 231/4,863 | 0.97 (0.84, 1.11) | ||
Adjusted* | 1.31 (0.98, 1.74) | 1.03 (0.86, 1.24) |
Adjusted for maternal age, smoking, parity, prepregnancy BMI, physical activity, breastfeeding, socioeconomic position, child sex, maternal history of asthma, maternal history of allergies, paternal history of asthma, paternal history of allergies, and energy (in quintiles).
Median values (0, 0.5, 3.5, and 7) for each intake group entered as a continuous variable into the model.