Table 5.

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

	Unadjusted analyses				Adjusted* analyses
	RR	(95% CI)	P-value	n	RR	(95% CI)	P-value	n
Birth size variables
Crown-heel length	0.97	0.92-1.03	0.282	944	0.97	0.92-1.03	0.317	926
Weight	0.98	0.93-1.04	0.486	960	0.97	0.92-1.03	0.356	942
Conditional fetal growth
11-19 weeks
Head circumference	0.92	0.83-1.01	0.090	383	0.90	0.81-1.00	0.041	373
Abdominal circumference	0.98	0.88-1.09	0.744	361	0.97	0.87-1.09	0.637	352
19-34 weeks
Head circumference	0.93	0.87-1.00	0.058	564	0.94	0.88-1.01	0.096	552
Abdominal circumference	1.06	0.99-1.13	0.117	584	1.05	0.98-1.13	0.136	572
Conditional Infant growth
0 – 6 months
Length	1.01	0.96-1.06	0.825	933	0.99	0.94-1.05	0.766	915
Weight	1.05	1.00-1.10	0.044	952	1.04	0.99-1.10	0.093	934
Subscapular skinfolds	1.07	1.02-1.12	0.009	950	1.06	1.00-1.11	0.024	932
6 – 12 months
Length	0.97	0.91-1.03	0.320	878	0.98	0.92-1.05	0.636	862
Weight	1.04	0.97-1.11	0.289	891	1.08	1.00-1.15	0.036	876
Subscapular skinfolds	1.00	0.95-1.06	0.929	887	1.02	0.96-1.09	0.465	871

N = 970

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