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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Aug;48(8):2766–2778. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3537-6

Table 2.

Matched Odds Ratios for the association between various maternal exposures and Autism Spectrum Disorder using conditional logistic regression models (298 case-control pairs)

Unadjusted
Adjusted
Maternal
exposures		 ASD Cases
N (%)		 TD Controls
N (%)		 MOR (95% CI)a p-value MOR (95% CI)a p-value
Fever or infectionb 51 (17.3) 22 (7.4) 2.81 (1.59 – 4.98) 0.0004 3.12 (1.74 – 5.60) c 0.0001
Traumad 29 (9.8) 13 (4.4) 2.33 (1.19 – 4.59) 0.0141 2.02 (1.01 – 4.05) e 0.0484
Degreasersf 21 (7.1) 8 (2.7) 2.63 (1.16 – 5.93) 0.0202 2.29 (1.00 – 5.24) e 0.0502
Oil-based paintsg 55 (18.6) 29 (9.8) 2.13 (1.30 – 3.50) 0.0028 1.99 (1.14 – 3.46) h 0.0148
Paint solventsi 34 (11.5) 19 (6.4) 1.94 (1.06 – 3.54) 0.0317 1.30 (0.68 – 2.50) j 0.4281
Pesticides or herbicidesk 104 (35.9) 66 (22.4) 2.08 (1.41 – 3.08) 0.0002 1.67 (1.08 – 2.59) h 0.0216
a

Matched Odds Ratio (MOR) and corresponding 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI);

b

Data missing for 3 cases and 2 controls;

c

Adjusted for age of the mother;

d

Data missing for 2 cases and 2 controls;

e

Adjusted for age of the father;

f

Data missing for 4 cases and 1 control;

g

Data missing for 2 cases and 1 control;

h

Adjusted for parish;

i

Data missing for 1 case and 3 controls;

j

Adjusted for age of the father and father’s education level;

k

Data missing for 8 cases and 3 controls