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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Two | PM2.5 | 4 μg/m3 | −3.3 (−8.0, 1.5) |
−2.0 (−10.1, 6.9) |
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Nitrogen Dioxide |
10 ppb | 0.6 (−3.0, 4.4) |
9.7 (2.9, 17.0) |
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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) |
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Two | PM2.5 | 4 μg/m3 | 8.2 (3.5, 13.2) |
5.3 (−2.8, 14.1) |
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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.