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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Pediatr. 2013 Sep;167(9):836–844. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.455

Table 3. Effect of Covariate Adjustment on Estimated Associations of Breastfeeding Duration* with Child Cognition.

Age 3 years (n=1224) Age 7 years (n=1037)

Points per month breastfed and 95% confidence interval
PPVT-III KBIT-II verbal KBIT-II non-verbal
Model 0: Child age & sex 0.58 (0.40, 0.76) 0.96 (0.77, 1.14) 0.65 (0.43, 0.87)
Model 1: Model 0 + fetal growth, gestational age 0.57 (0.39, 0.75) 0.95 (0.76, 1.14) 0.64 (0.42, 0.86)
Model 2: Model 1 + demographic variables 0.29 (0.12, 0.47) 0.46 (0.28, 0.65) 0.38 (0.13, 0.62)
Model 3: Model 2 + HOME score 0.29 (0.11, 0.46) 0.46 (0.27, 0.64) 0.38 (0.13, 0.62)
Model 4: Model 3 + maternal IQ 0.21 (0.03, 0.38) 0.35 (0.16, 0.53) 0.29 (0.05, 0.54)
*

any breastfeeding through 12 months of age

child race/ethnicity, maternal age, parity, smoking status, parental education level and marital status, annual household income, maternal depression at 6 months post-partum, maternal employment and child care at age 6 months, and primary language