Table 4.

Relative risks (RR) for the associations between pre- and postnatal growth and whether the child had ever wheezed by age 3 years and was atopic, compared with children who had never wheezed and were not atopic (unadjusted and adjusted)

	Unadjusted analyses				Adjusted* analyses
Birth size variables
Crown-heel length	1.09	0.94-1.26	0.247	527	1.08	0.93-1.26	0.313	456
Weight	1.06	0.91-1.23	0.461	537	1.02	0.87-1.19	0.810	465
Conditional fetal growth
11-19 weeks
Head circumference	0.96	0.69-1.33	0.818	207	0.79	0.54-1.15	0.216	183
Abdominal circumference	1.42	1.05-1.92	0.024	197	1.32	0.94-1.85	0.114	172
19-34 weeks
Head circumference	0.98	0.80-1.21	0.866	308	0.88	0.69-1.12	0.294	276
Abdominal circumference	0.82	0.66-1.01	0.066	321	0.80	0.65-1.00	0.046	288
Conditional Infant growth
0 – 6 months
Length	1.00	0.86-1.16	0.987	518	0.96	0.82-1.12	0.602	499
Weight	1.25	1.09-1.43	0.001	530	1.22	1.03-1.43	0.020	460
Subscapular skinfolds	1.22	1.07-1.40	0.004	533	1.27	1.09-1.49	0.002	463
6 – 12 months
Length	1.02	0.85-1.22	0.829	497	0.98	0.80-1.20	0.842	432
Weight	1.14	0.92-1.41	0.234	504	1.19	0.94-1.31	0.147	438
Subscapular skinfolds	1.14	0.99-1.32	0.073	502	1.20	1.03-1.39	0.018	436

N = 542;

^*Adjusted for gender, smoking during pregnancy, maternal asthma and maternal rhinitis, maternal atopy, paternal asthma, maternal education and birth order.