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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Apr 24;22(11):2406–2412. doi: 10.1002/oby.20778

Table 2.

Odds of overweight or obese among offspring of women using a pharmacologic sex hormone - by trimester of first use

Overweight or obese
(≥85th percentile)
Obese (≥95th percentile)

Exposure Exposed
n
Exposed
cases
n
Crude OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted* OR
(95% CI)
Exposed
cases
n
Crude OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted* OR
(95% CI)
Oral contraceptive**
None 34,223 4,920 referent referent 1,731 referent referent
Trimester 1 182 31 1.3 (0.9, 1.8) 1.4 (0.9, 2.0) 12 1.3 (0.8, 2.4) 1.7 (0.9, 3.0)
Trimester 2 14 3 1.7 (0.5, 6.0) 1.8 (0.5, 7.0) 0 -- --
DES**
None 34,288 4,929 referent referent 1,730 referent referent
Trimester 1 86 15 1.2 (0.7, 2.1) 0.8 (0.5, 1.4) 8 2.0 (0.9, 4.0) 1.3 (0.6, 2.8)
Trimester 2 39 9 1.6 (0.7, 3.4) 1.5 (0.7, 3.2) 4 2.0 (0.7, 6.0) 2.0 (0.6, 6.5)
Trimester 3 6 1 1.2 (0.1, 10.1) 1.2 (0.1, 12.3) 1 3.7 (0.4, 31.9) 4.4 (0.3, 55.9)
*

adjusted for maternal smoking, education, parity, race, pre-pregnancy BMI, maternal age, and study center

**

trimester of first documented use in pregnancy -- trimester 1 corresponds to months 1–3, trimester 2 corresponds to months 4–6, and trimester 3 corresponds to months 7–9

not estimable