. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 3.

Published in final edited form as: J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2014 Jun;5(3):214–218. doi: 10.1017/S204017441400021X

Table 2.

Association of covariates with infant BMI growth in the first 12 months of age

Covariate	Estimate	Confidence Intervals (lower, upper)	P-value
Time (months)	0.041	0.66, 0.82	<0.0001
Time squared (months²)	−0.003	−0.05, −0.03	<0.0001
Cord blood leptin (uU/ml)	0.01	−0.01, 0.04	0.2619
Time by cord blood leptin interaction	0.002	−0.01, 0.00	0.0046
Exposure status (BMI >25 kg/m² or GDM)	−0.30	−0.57, −0.03	0.0295
Sex (male as referent group)	−0.21	−0.48, 0.07	0.1439
Birth weight (g)	0.0002	0.00, 0.00	<0.0001

BMI, body mass index; GDM, gestational diabetes.