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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Jan;70(1):71–77. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.266

Table 2.

Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals for autism, by quartile** of modeled traffic related air pollution (TRP) exposure from all road types (N=524).

4th quartile 3rd quartile 2nd quartile
First Year of Life Crude 2.97 (1.71–5.27) 1.00 (0.63–1.60) 0.88 (0.55–1.42)
Adjusted* 3.10 (1.76–5.57) 1.00 (0.62–1.62) 0.91 (0.56–1.47)

All Pregnancy Crude 1.99 (1.22–3.28) 1.10 (0.67–1.78) 1.20 (0.74–1.95)
Adjusted* 1.98 (1.20–3.31) 1.09 (0.67–1.79) 1.26 (0.77–2.06)

First Trimester Crude 1.91 (1.67–3.14) 1.28 (0.80–2.06) 1.28 (0.77–2.14)
Adjusted* 1.85 (1.11–3.08) 1.28 (0.79–2.08) 1.28 (0.77–2.15)

Second Trimester Crude 1.69 (1.04–2.78) 1.15 (0.71–1.87) 0.89 (0.54–1.47)
Adjusted* 1.65 (1.00–2.74) 1.13 (0.69–1.84) 0.90 (0.54–1.49)

Third Trimester Crude 2.04 (1.25–3.38) 0.92 (0.57–1.48) 1.12 (0.68–1.84)
Adjusted* 2.10 (1.27–3.51) 0.91 (0.56–1.46) 1.17 (0.71–1.93)
*

Model adjusted for child male gender, child ethnicity (Hispanic vs. White, Black/Asian/Other vs. White), maximum education of parents (parent with highest of four levels: college degree or higher vs. some high school, high school degree, or some college education), maternal age ( >35 years vs. ≤ 35years), and prenatal smoking (self report of ever vs. never smoked while pregnant).

**

Quartile cut points correspond to TRP levels of 31.8 ppb or greater (4th quartile), 16.9–31.8 ppb (3rd quartile), and 9.7–16.9 ppb (2nd quartile), compared to 9.7 ppb or less (1st quartile, reference group).