Table 4.

Risk of autism and ADHD in adoptees when their biological or adoptive parents were diagnosed with alcohol use disorder (AUD)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02917.006

	No. of offspring at risk	Person-years of follow-up	Autism				ADHD
			O	SIR	95% CI		O	SIR	95% CI
Biological parents with AUD
Father	2175	51746	16	2.15	1.23	3.50	53	2.63	1.97	3.44
Mother	1381	32745	10	1.81	0.86	3.35	18	1.21	0.72	1.92
Parents	3251	77310	19	1.75	1.05	2.74	58	1.91	1.45	2.47
Adoptive parents with AUD
Father	457	10,839	1	0.75	0.00	4.28	7	1.78	0.70	3.68
Mother	229	5443	0				4	1.93	0.50	4.98
Parents	654	15546	1	0.51	0.00	2.93	9	1.59	0.72	3.04

O, observed number of cases; SIR, standardized incidence ratio; CI, confidence interval.

Bold type, 95% CI does not include 1.00.