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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2017 Sep;28(5):719–727. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000704

Table 1.

Characteristics of Girls in BCERPa by Childhood Secondhand Smoke (SHS) Exposureb

No Exposure
(N=700, 62%)
Low/Moderate
(N=344, 30%)
High
(N=85, 8%)
Total
(N=1129)

N (row %) N (row %) N (row %) N (column %)
Study Site
  New York 189 (50) 136 (36) 53 (14) 378 (33)
  Ohio 196 (58) 112 (33) 28 (8) 336 (30)
  California 315 (76) 96 (23) 4 (1) 415 (37)
Annual household income
  <$50,000 251 (47) 225 (42) 60 (11) 536 (47)
  ≥$50 – <100,000 218 (69) 77 (24) 22 (7) 317 (28)
  ≥$100,000 231 (84) 42 (15) 3 (1) 276 (24)
Maternal education
  High School or less 165 (51) 124 (39) 32 (10) 321 (29)
  Some College 166 (48) 138 (40) 39 (11) 343 (31)
  College grad or higher 365 (80) 80 (18) 12 (3) 457 (41)
Maternal age at delivery
  <25 years 146 (48) 123 (40) 37 (12) 306 (28)
  25–35 years 340 (65) 146 (28) 34 (7) 520 (48)
  >35 years 204 (77) 53 (20) 9 (3) 266 (24)
Maternal prenatal smoking
  None 685 (66) 300 (29) 50 (5) 1035 (92)
  <5 cigs/day 11 (17) 34 (53) 19 (30) 64 (6)
  ≥5 cigs/day 4 (13) 10 (33) 16 (53) 30 (3)
Child race
  Black 166 (46) 147 (41) 44 (12) 357 (32)
  Hispanic 200 (61) 107 (33) 21 (6) 328 (29)
  Asian 45 (82) 9 (16) 1 (2) 55 (5)
  White 289 (74) 81 (21) 19 (5) 389 (34)
Child BMI (at baseline)
  <85th %ile CDC 488 (64) 221 (29) 49 (6) 758 (67)
  ≥85th %ile CDC 212 (57) 123 (33) 36 (10) 371 (33)
Birth weight
  Low (<5.5 lbs) 65 (62) 33 (31) 7 (7) 105 (10)
  Mid (5.5–9.0 lbs) 560 (62) 268 (30) 71 (8) 899 (83)
  High (>9.0 lbs) 53 (73) 17 (23) 3 (4) 73 (7)
Cotinine at baseline (creatinine-adjusted)
  Q1: ≤0.25 ug/g 266 (93) 21 (7) 0 (0) 287 (25)
  Q2: 0.26–0.61 ug/g 211 (75) 68 (24) 2 (1) 281 (25)
  Q3: 0.62–2.24 ug/g 169 (61) 104 (37) 6 (2) 279 (25)
  Q4: ≥2.25 ug/g 54 (19) 151 (54) 77 (27) 282 (25)
a

Girls with all smoke exposure variables (self-report and cotinine concentrations) non-missing, N=1129; some girls were missing data on characteristics.

b

SHS categories determined from combination of number of household smokers and amount smoked at home, as well as hours exposed away from home. No exposure reflects no regular household smokers in the home or exposure outside, High is defined as >35 cigarettes smoked per week in home or > 5 hrs/week SHS outside the home and at least one regular smoker at home, and Low/Moderate includes everyone else with at least some exposure at home or away.

BCERP indicates Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program; BMI, body mass index; CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts used to define overweight as BMI ≥ 85th percentile; Q1–4 indicates quartiles.