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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fertil Steril. 2014 Oct 22;103(1):184–189. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.10.001

Table 3.

Association between serum concentrations of PFCs and risk for gestational diabetes (GDM), LIFE Study, 2005–2009.

Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR1
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR2
(95% CI)
PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid)
Per SD increment (0.43) 1.61 (1.05,2.49) 1.85 (1.15,2.98) 1.86 (1.14,3.02)
Et-PFOSA-AcOH (2-(N-ethyl-perfluorooctane sulfonamido) acetic acid)
Per SD increment (0.05) 1.26 (0.89,1.79) 1.24 (0.87,1.79) 1.25 (0.87,1.80)
Me-PFOSA-AcOH (2-(N-methyl-perfluorooctane sulfonamido) acetic acid)
Per SD increment (0.24) 1.06 (0.72,1.55) 1.06 (0.72,1.55) 1.05 (0.71,1.54)
PFDeA (perfluorodecanoic acid)
Per SD increment (0.21) 1.07 (0.73,1.55) 1.07 (0.72,1.58) 1.04 (0.70,1.53)
PFNA (perfluorononanoic acid)
Per SD increment (0.32) 1.08 (0.73,1.60) 1.09 (0.72,1.63) 1.06 (0.70,1.60)
PFOSA (perfluorooctane sulfonamide)‡‡
Per SD increment (0.03) 1.08 (0.76,1.55) 1.08 (0.76,1.55) 1.07 (0.74,1.55)
PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid)
Per SD increment (0.55) 1.15 (0.78,1.70) 1.16 (0.77,1.76) 1.13 (0.75,1.72)

OR1 adjusted for age (years), BMI (kg/m2), and parity conditional on gravidity (never pregnant/pregnant without live birth/ pregnant with previous birth)

OR2 Adjusted for age (years), BMI (kg/m2), parity conditional on gravidity (never pregnant/pregnant without live birth/ pregnant with previous birth), race/ethnicity (White/non-White) and smoking (yes/no)

95% concentrations for this analyte are below the LOD

‡‡

89% concentrations for this analyte are below the LOD

SD values presented were log transformed of the original SD