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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Apr 8;63(6):488–496. doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.082792

Table 5.

Percent Change in Risk (And 95% Confidence Intervals) of SGA and VSGA Associated with Each Incremental (Interquartile Range) Increase in Mean Trimester Specific PM2.5 and NO2 Concentrations (Single pollutant and Two pollutant models). New Jersey Air Pollution and Adverse Birth Outcomes Study 1999-2003 (n=59,955).

Trimester
of mean
concentration
Model
Type
(Single or
Two
pollutant)
Pollutant Interquartile
range
Small for
gestational age
Very small for
gestational age
1st Trimester Single* PM2.5 4 μg/m3 4.6
(−0.3, 9.8)
4.5
(−4.0, 13.7)
Single* Nitrogen
Dioxide
10 ppb 1.0
(−2.9, 5.0)
9.2
(2.0, 17.0)

Two PM2.5 4 μg/m3 4.5
(−0.4, 9.7)
3.2
(−5.2, 12.4)
Nitrogen
Dioxide
10 ppb 0.6
(−3.3, 4.6)
8.9
(1.6, 16.7)

2nd Trimester Single* PM2.5 4 μg/m3 −3.2
(−7.8, 1.6)
−0.6
(−8.7, 8.3)
Single* Nitrogen
Dioxide
10 ppb 0.3
(−3.2, 4.0)
9.5
(2.8, 16.8)

Two PM2.5 4 μg/m3 −3.3
(−8.0, 1.5)
−2.0
(−10.1, 6.9)
Nitrogen
Dioxide
10 ppb 0.6
(−3.0, 4.4)
9.7
(2.9, 17.0)

3rd Trimester Single* PM2.5 4 μg/m3 8.2
(3.4, 13.2)
6.4
(−1.7, 15.2)
Single* Nitrogen
Dioxide
10 ppb 0.3
(−3.2, 3.8)
9.1
(2.5, 16.0)

Two PM2.5 4 μg/m3 8.2
(3.5, 13.2)
5.3
(−2.8, 14.1)
Nitrogen
Dioxide
10 ppb −0.4
(−3.8, 3.2)
8.6
(2.1, 15.5)

NOTE: All risk estimates adjusted for maternal race/ethnicity, maternal education, maternal age, marital status, trimester prenatal care began; maternal alcohol use, maternal smoking, maternal drug use, percentage of population (≥ 25 years) in maternal residence census tract with < 12 years of education, percentage of population (≥ 25 years) in maternal residence census tract with at least 4 years of college, and percentage of population in maternal residence census tract below federally defined poverty line.

*

Note, these single pollutant models differ from those in Table 4 only by the number of births used in the analysis.