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. 2013 May 7;108(11):2346–2353. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2013.201

Table 2. Associations of attending daycare within 1st and 6 years of life, total daycare childhours within 6 years of life, living with other children, birth order and attending baby groups within 1st year and CABT.

  Overall CABT
Glioma
Embryonal CNS tumour
Other CABT
  Cases Controls OR 95% CI Cases Controls OR 95% CI Cases Controls OR 95% CI Cases Controls OR 95% CI
Daycare within 1st year of life
No 258 476 1.00 Reference 142 254 1.00 Reference 44 86 1.00 Reference 72 136 1.00 Reference
Yes
94
167
1.11
0.80–1.55
50
93
1.02
0.65–1.60
18
33
1.17
0.54–2.53
26
41
1.28
0.68–2.40
Attending daycare beween 0 and 6 years
No 44 87 1.00 Reference 24 48 1.00 Reference 7 13 1.00 Reference 13 26 1.00 Reference
Yes
308
556
0.97
0.63–1.49
168
299
0.96
0.53–1.73
55
106
1.05
0.36–3.05
85
151
0.94
0.43–2.03
Total daycare childhours (quintiles)
1st Quintile 61 131 1.00 Reference 30 73 1.00 Reference 9 19 1.00 Reference 22 39 1.00 Reference
2nd Quintile 70 107 1.36 0.87–2.11 32 60 1.39 0.75–2.59 13 24 1.22 0.40–3.75 25 23 1.62 0.72–3.65
3rd Quintile 62 119 1.05 0.62–1.76 33 66 1.39 0.65–2.97 13 16 2.71 0.60–12.32 16 37 0.61 0.25–1.48
4th Quintile 80 104 1.63 0.96–2.78 49 48 3.39 1.54–7.46 16 21 2.08 0.49–8.72 15 35 0.61 0.24–1.52
5th Quintile 53 126 0.89 0.52–1.54 29 62 1.52 0.68–3.39 5 26 0.42 0.09–1.91 19 38 0.64 0.26–1.57
Per 50 000 childhours
 
 
0.94
0.79–1.12
 
 
1.19
0.92–1.54
 
 
0.67
0.42–1.06
 
 
0.80
0.59–1.08
Living with other children before age 6 years
No 15 37 1.00 Reference 9 25 1.00 Reference 2 6 1.00 Reference 4 6 1.00 Reference
Yes
335
601
1.38
0.73–2.59
182
319
1.64
0.73–3.67
59
110
1.58
0.29–8.58
94
172
0.78
0.22–2.78
Birth order
1st Born 144 249 1.00 Reference 79 134 1.00 Reference 31 46 1.00 Reference 34 69 1.00 Reference
>1st Born
207
391
0.89
0.68–1.16
113
212
0.90
0.63–1.29
31
73
0.63
0.34–1.16
63
106
1.14
0.67–1.95
Attending baby groups within 1st year
No 90 182 1.00 Reference 46 107 1.00 Reference 19 37 1.00 Reference 25 38 1.00 Reference
Yes 261 455 1.12 0.82–1.54 146 237 1.47 0.95–2.28 43 82 1.00 0.47–2.13 72 136 0.74 0.42–1.32

Abbreviations: CABT=childhood and adolescent brain tumour; CI=confidence intervals; CNS=central nervous system; OR=odds ratio.

Conditional logistic regression analyses, which adjusts for matching factors (age, gender and region) expressed as OR values with 95% CIs.