Table 4. Crude and adjusted mean birth weight in male and female infants without preterm birth.
Smoking status during early pregnancy | Male | Female | ||||||||
Crude mean birth weight (g) |
Standard Error |
Adjusted mean birth weight (g)a |
Standard Error |
P-valueb | Crude mean birth weight (g) |
Standard Error |
Adjusted mean birth weight (g)a |
Standard Error |
P-valueb | |
Never-smokers | 3102.6 | 8.3 | 3141.8 | 17.5 | 3007.7 | 8.2 | 3055.5 | 16.4 | ||
Ex-smokers who quit before pregnancy | 3110.6 | 12.1 | 3133.8 | 19.2 | 0.9 | 3031.6 | 12.3 | 3069.2 | 18.2 | 0.6 |
Ex-smokers who quit during early pregnancy | 3116.9 | 15.5 | 3109.7 | 21.0 | 0.2 | 2999.7 | 16.8 | 3021.1 | 20.7 | 0.14 |
Current smokers | 2994.1 | 26.3 | 3004.6 | 28.4 | <0.001 | 2875.2 | 24.7 | 2928.0 | 28.2 | <0.001 |
aAdjusted for partners’ smoking status, annual household income, birth order of children, pregnancy-induced hypertension, diabetes mellitus/gestational diabetes mellitus, maternal weight before pregnancy, maternal weight gain during pregnancy, maternal age group at delivery, and gestational duration; calculated by least squares mean adjustment.
bP-value was calculated using Dunnett’s test by least squares mean adjustment.