Table 2.

Oil spill exposure and reported postponement of pregnancy after the Gulf oil spill (2010) in a cohort of Southern Louisiana women, 2011–2016.

			unadjusted		adjusteda
	N with outcome	%	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Any oil spill exposure			1.78	1.11–2.88	1.92	1.17–3.15
Yes	50	6.4
No	27	3.7
Income loss due to oil spill			1.42	0.88–2.29	1.55	0.95–2.55
Yes	28	6.3
No	49	4.5
Trauma/property damage			1.43	0.60–3.38	2.00	0.82–4.89
Yes	6	6.9
No	70	4.9
Loss of use of the coast due to the oil spill			1.50	0.93–2.39	1.58	0.97–2.57
Yes	37	6.1
No	36	4.2
Litigation			2.89	1.82–4.59	2.72	1.70–4.35
Yes	36	9.7
No	41	3.6
contact with oil
low	56	4.5	1.00		1.00
medium	10	6.0	1.34	0.67–2.69	1.38	0.68–2.80
high	10	8.8	2.03	1.01–4.10	2.13	1.04–4.39
total oil spill exposure
low	20	3.0	1.00		1.00
medium-low	27	6.0	2.06	1.14–3.71	2.08	1.14–3.77
medium-high	20	7.8	2.75	1.46–5.21	2.86	1.49–5.48
high	10	6.9	2.43	1.11–5.30	2.92	1.31–6.51

^aadjusted for age at interview, BMI, race, income, education, smoking, year of interview, and age at first pregnancy. In all cases, reference group is those without the specified type of exposure; those unexposed in one analysis might be exposed in another.