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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Obes. 2016 Mar 7;12(2):129–136. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12119

Table 1.

Participant characteristics, overall and by pregnancy oral antibiotic prescription, among 2128 mother-infant pairs in Project Viva

Any antibiotic in pregnancy
Total (n = 2128) Yes (n = 643) No (n = 1485)
Mean (SD) or N (%)
Maternal characteristics
Pre-pregnancy BMI, kg/m2 24.9 (5.6) 25.5 (5.9) 24.6 (5.4)
Age, years 31.8 (5.2) 31.0 (6.0) 32.2 (4.8)
Nulliparous, %
  No 1111 (52.2%) 381 (59.3%) 730 (49.2%)
  Yes 1017 (47.8) 262 (40.7) 755 (50.8)
Race/ethnicity, %
  Black 348 (16.5) 144 (22.7) 204 (13.9)
  Hispanic 154 (7.3) 69 (10.9) 85 (5.8)
  Asian 120 (5.7) 29 (4.6) 91 (6.2)
  White 1399 (66.5) 365 (57.5) 1034 (70.4)
  Other 83 (3.9) 28 (4.4) 55 (3.7)
Married or cohabitating, %
  No 180 (8.6) 81 (12.8) 99 (6.7)
  Yes 1923 (91.4) 554 (87.2) 1369 (93.3)
College graduate, %
  No 744 (35.4) 294 (46.3) 450 (30.6)
  Yes 1360 (64.6) 341 (53.7) 1019 (69.4)
Household income >$70K/year, %
  No 728 (38.8) 264 (48.7) 464 (34.8)
  Yes 1146 (61.2) 278 (51.3) 868 (65.2)
Smoking status, %
  Never 1443 (68.5) 418 (65.6) 1025 (69.7)
  Former 398 (18.9) 112 (17.6) 286 (19.5)
  During pregnancy 266 (12.6) 107 (16.8) 159 (10.8)
Pregnancy weight gain, kg 15.5 (5.7) 15.3 (5.9) 15.6 (5.6)
Mode of delivery, %
  Vaginal 1600 (76.3) 496 (77.3) 1104 (75.8)
  Cesarean section 498 (23.7) 146 (22.7) 352 (24.2)
Infant characteristics
Sex, %
  Male 1096 (51.5) 350 (54.4) 746 (50.2)
  Female 1032 (48.5) 293 (45.6) 739 (49.8)
Gestational age, wk 39.4 (2.0) 39.3 (1.9) 39.5 (2.0)
Birth weight, g 3461 (592) 3429 (589) 3475 (593)
BW/GA z-score 0.17 (0.97) 0.11 (0.98) 0.20 (0.96)
Cord blood leptin, ng/ml 9.0 (6.6) 9.1 (6.8) 9.0 (6.5)
Cord blood adiponectin, mg/ml 28.8 (6.8) 28.5 (6.8) 28.9 (6.8)

BMI, body mass index; BW-GA-z, birth weight for gestational age z-score; SD, standard deviation