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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2017 Jan 26;176:166–173. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2017.01.016

Table 2.

Estimate Effects and 95% CIs for parental pesticide exposure inside or outside the home in the month before or during pregnancy and unilateral retinoblastoma, conditional logistic regression analyses

Cases (N=99) Controls (N=99) Crude Adjusteda

Exposed N Unexposed N Exposed N Unexposed N OR OR (95% CI)
Professional services use
Lawn or landscape services 21 78 13 86 2.5 2.8 (1.0, 8.2)
Home pest control services 12 87 20 79 0.4 0.6 (0.2, 1.7)
Product to kill insects or diseases
Inside or outside the home, such as Raid 51 48 42 57 1.8 2.8 (1.1, 6.7)
On the lawn 13 86 9 90 1.5 1.2 (0.4, 3.4)
On plants, vegetables, fruit, flowers or trees 4 95 7 92 0.6 0.6(0.2, 2.3)
Use of weed control products on garden/lawn 27 72 19 80 1.8 2.3 (0.9, 5.4)
Use of product to kill mold or fungus 5 94 4 95 1.5 3.2 (0.4, 26.0)
Use of rodent control products 7 92 8 91 0.9 0.8 (0.3, 2.7)
Use of flea/tick products on pets 36 60 33 66 1.1 1.5 (0.7, 3.1)
Use of insect repellant 25 74 28 71 0.7 0.6 (0.3, 1.5)
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Adjusted for mother's race, mother's age, mother's work status, and whether the father was living at home at start of pregnancy.