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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2017 Jun 23;187:247–252.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.05.014

Table 3.

(Online). Coefficients and confidence intervals from linear regression models of sleep duration and log-transformed telomere length (N=1,567)

(1) Unadjusted (2) Age-adjusted (3) All covariates

Intercept 1.796*** 1.657, 1.936) 1.755*** (1.261, 2.250) 1.569*** (1.108, 2.031)
Hours of sleep 0.026** (0.011, 0.042) 0.022** (0.007, 0.037) 0.015* (0.002, 0.029)
Child’s age in months −0.001 (−0.005, 0.004) −0.003+ (−0.007, 0.0002)
Mother’s age at child’s birth 0.002 (−0.001, 0.005) −0.001 (−0.004, 0.003)
Father’s age at child’s birth 0.004+ (−0.001, 0.008) 0.003 (−0.001, 0.007)
Child low birth weight (ref: >2,500 grams) −0.012 (−0.063, 0.039)
Child male (ref: female) −0.014 (−0.040, 0.011)
Child’s puberty score 0.015 (−0.040, 0.070)
Child’s BMI 0.001 (−0.002, 0.004)
Child ever diagnosed with ADHD/ADD −0.014 (−0.064, 0.036)
Child ever diagnosed with autism 0.062 (−0.121, 0.246)
Mother’s telomere length (logged) 0.324*** (0.273, 0.376)
Mother non-Hispanic black (ref: non-Hispanic white) 0.001 (−0.058, 0.061)
Mother Hispanic (ref: non-Hispanic white) −0.014 (−0.064, 0.035)
Mother other race/ethnicity (ref: non-Hispanic white) −0.052 (−0.133, 0.029)
Mother foreign born 0.071*** (0.046, 0.096)
Mother has high school diploma or GED (ref: less than high school education) 0.002 (−0.032, 0.037)
Mother attended some college (ref: less than high school education) 0.025 (−0.024, 0.075)
Mother is a college graduate (ref: less than high school education) 0.048 (−0.017, 0.113)
Log of household income −0.001 (−0.016, 0.014)
Biological parents married (ref: no relationship) 0.059** (0.017, 0.100)
Biological parents cohabiting (ref: no relationship) 0.006 (−0.029, 0.042)
Number of children in home 0.003 (−0.012, 0.017)
City fixed effects

R2 0.008 0.020 0.141
a

+p<0.10; *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001