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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2017 Sep 16;91(1):47–56. doi: 10.1007/s00420-017-1257-4

Table 4.

Reported oil spill exposure and miscarriage as outcome of pregnancy, limited to those with both a pre- and post-oil spill pregnancy, reported oil spill exposure as a predictor of pregnancy outcomes occurring prior to and after the oil spill (n=633 women, 2011 pregnancies)

unadjusted adjusteda
Pregnancy occurred pre-oil spill Pregnancy occurred post-oil spill Pregnancy occurred pre-oil spill Pregnancy occurred post-oil spill
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
any exposure 2.00 1.29–3.10 2.15 1.27–3.64 1.64 1.06–2.54 1.98 1.15–3.41
income 2.01 1.33–3.04 1.92 1.14–3.23 1.80 1.18–2.74 1.65 0.98–2.76
contact with oil 1.41 0.87–2.30 1.40 0.73–2.66 1.29 0.79–2.12 1.10 0.56–2.16
trauma 0.93 0.42–2.05 1.36 0.57–3.23 0.76 0.35–1.66 1.27 0.55–2.92
coast 2.08 1.37–3.15 2.06 1.21–3.50 1.81 1.19–2.75 1.73 0.98–3.03
litigation 1.40 0.89–2.21 1.34 0.74–2.44 1.58 1.01–2.47 1.40 0.76–2.56
contact with oil
 low 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 medium 1.26 0.69–2.30 1.60 0.77–3.30 1.20 0.68–2.12 1.25 0.57–2.72
 high 1.70 0.84–3.42 1.05 0.32–3.45 1.45 0.67–3.13 0.85 0.25–2.89
total oil spill exposure
 low 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
 medium-low 1.80 1.08–3.00 1.60 0.82–3.11 1.72 1.02–2.90 1.46 0.73–2.92
 medium-high 2.67 1.53–4.68 3.08 1.65–5.75 2.70 1.56–4.68 2.56 1.38–4.74
 high 2.04 1.04–4.01 1.68 0.67–4.19 1.65 0.83–3.31 1.32 0.54–3.24
a

adjusted for age, gravidity, weight gain during pregnancy, BMI, race, income, education. In all cases, reference group is those without the specified type of exposure; those unexposed in one analysis might be exposed in another.