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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 3.

Odds of overweight or obese among offspring of women using a pharmacologic sex hormone - by months 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)
OC months of first use**
None 34,223 4,920 referent referent 1,731 referent referent
1–2 159 27 1.3 (0.8, 1.9) 1.4 (0.9, 2.1) 12 1.6 (0.9, 2.8) 2.0 (1.1, 3.7)
2–3 52 10 1.4 (0.7, 2.8) 1.6 (0.8, 3.1) 2 0.7 (0.2, 3.1) 0.9 (0.2, 4.1)
3–4 37 7 1.3 (0.6, 3.1) 1.3 (0.5, 3.2) 0 -- --
DES months of first use**
None 34,288 4,929 referent referent 1,730 referent referent
1–2 51 6 0.8 (0.4, 1.9) 0.5 (0.2, 1.3) 3 1.2 (0.4, 3.7) 0.8 (0.3, 2.5)
2–3 69 12 1.2 (0.6, 2.3) 0.7 (0.4, 1.4) 7 2.2 (1.0, 4.7) 1.4 (0.6, 3.0)
3–4 52 16 2.4 (1.3, 4.3) 1.7 (0.9, 3.2) 9 3.8 (1.8, 7.8) 2.8 (1.3, 6.3)
4–5 32 9 2.1 (1.0, 4.6) 2.0 (0.9, 3.2) 4 2.5 (0.9, 7.6) 2.6 (0.8, 8.6)
5–6 22 2 0.5 (0.1, 2.7) 0.6 (0.1, 2.6) 0 -- --
6–7 9 1 0.6 (0.1, 7.1) 0.6 (0.1, 5.9) 1 2.4 (0.3, 18.4) 2.5 (0.3, 20.2)
7–8 6 1 1.2 (0.1, 10.1) 1.2 (0.1, 12.3) 1 3.7 (0.4, 31.9) 4.5 (0.4, 56.6)
8–9 4 0 -- -- 0 -- --
by month of start -- -- 1.1 (0.9, 1.2) 1.0 (0.9, 1.1) -- 1.2 (1.0, 1.4) 1.2 (1.0, 1.4)
*

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

**

months of first documented use in pregnancy

not estimable

represents OR for one unit increase in month for month of start of use