Table 4.
Associations between maternal exposure to dieldrin and offspring’s body size in the CPP, 1959–1965.
| Dieldrin (μg/L)a | Overweightb | Obese | BMI (kg/m2) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | OR (95% CI)c | n | OR (95% CI)c | β (95% CI)c,d | |
| < 0.57 | 50 | 1.00 | 8 | 1.00 | 0.00 |
| 0.57–0.72 | 37 | 0.78 (0.44, 1.39) | 8 | 1.49 (0.46, 4.85) | 0.07 (–0.23, 0.38) |
| 0.73–0.91 | 46 | 0.84 (0.48, 1.48) | 12 | 1.39 (0.47, 4.15) | 0.12 (–0.16, 0.41) |
| 0.92–1.18 | 41 | 0.83 (0.46, 1.48) | 20 | 3.62 (1.25, 10.46) | 0.22 (–0.15, 0.59) |
| > 1.18 | 48 | 0.79 (0.44, 1.43) | 16 | 2.31 (0.76, 7.09) | 0.13 (–0.24, 0.50) |
| p-Trende | 0.61 | 0.08 | 0.50 | ||
| aQuintiles. bIncludes overweight and obese. cAdjusted for total cholesterol, triglycerides, study center, mother’s race, socioeconomic index, education, smoking during pregnancy, prepregnancy BMI, and child’s sex and birth order. dAdditionally adjusted for child’s exact age at anthropometric measurements. eTrend test from a model that included quintiles of dieldrin as an ordinal variable, median level of each quintile defined each category. | |||||