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 | |||
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| 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) |
Adjusted for mother's race, mother's age, mother's work status, and whether the father was living at home at start of pregnancy.