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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 3.

Associations of Maternal Prenatal Smoking and Childhood Secondhand Smoke Exposure with Pubertal Onseta, Crude and Adjusted Time Ratios (TRs) with 95% Confidence Intervals (CIs)

Smoke exposure Crude model Adjusted modelb Adjusted model including both
smoke exposuresc



Breast Onset
TR (95% CI)
Pubic Hair Onset
TR (95% CI)
Breast Onset
Adjusted TR
(95% CI)
Pubic Hair Onset
Adjusted TR
(95% CI)
Breast Onset
Adjusted TR
(95% CI)
Pubic Hair Onset
Adjusted TR
(95% CI)
Maternal Prenatal Smoke
  ≥5 cigs/day 0.95 (0.90–1.00) 0.91 (0.86–0.97) 1.02 (0.96–1.06) 0.92 (0.87–0.97) 1.02 (0.96–1.06) 0.94 (0.89–1.01)
  <5 cigs/day 0.98 (0.94–1.02) 0.97 (0.93–1.01) 1.01 (0.97–1.05) 0.98 (0.94–1.03) 1.01 (0.97–1.05) 1.00 (0.96–1.04)
  None ref ref ref ref ref ref
Secondhand smoke d
  High 0.96 (0.92–0.99) 0.91 (0.88–0.95) 1.00 (0.96–1.04) 0.94 (0.90–0.97) 0.99 (0.96–1.03) 0.95 (0.91–0.98)
  Low/Moderate 0.98 (0.96–1.00) 0.98 (0.96–1.00) 1.01 (0.99–1.03) 1.00 (0.97–1.02) 1.01 (0.98–1.03) 1.00 (0.98–1.02)
  None ref ref ref ref ref ref
a

Pubertal onset defined (separately) as breast or pubic hair development at Tanner stage 2 or higher (B2+ or PH2+).

b

Adjusted model includes: child race, study site, household income, primary caregiver’s education, maternal age at delivery, child BMI (baseline), and birth weight, in separate models for each exposure.

c

Adjusted model includes both smoking variables, along with the above covariates.

d

Secondhand smoke categories determined from combination of number of cigarettes smoked in the home and hours exposed away from home. No exposure reflects no regular household smokers in the home or exposure outside (>1hr/week), High is defined as >35 cigarettes smoked per week in home or > 5 hours/week secondhand smoke exposure 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.