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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 9.
Published in final edited form as: Nutr Neurosci. 2017 Mar 9;21(5):352–360. doi: 10.1080/1028415X.2017.1290932

Table 2.

: Hazard Ratios (HR) for the Association Between Hospital diagnosed Hyperkinetic Disorders (HKD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Medication and Early Folic Acid and Multivitamin Supplementation (from −4 weeks to 8 weeks of gestation), in the DNBC ¥

Exp. Cases/Total Exp. Unexp. cases/Total Unexp. cHR 95%
Confidence
aHR* 95%
Confidence
Folic acid users
 HKD Diagnosis 20/2661 164/11916 0.59 0.37 0.95 0.87 0.54 1.41
 ADHD Medication 39/2661 268/11916 0.70 0.50 0.97 0.96 0.68 1.37
Multivitamin users
 HKD Diagnosis 55/7901 164/11916 0.53 0.39 0.73 0.70 0.52 0.96
 ADHD Medication 107/7901 268/11916 0.63 0.50 0.79 0.78 0.62 0.98
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Consumed supplements in at least 10 of the 12 weeks, some folic acid users may have used multivitamins, multivitamin category excludes folic acid users

*

Adjusted for maternal age (continuously); household socio-economic status (low, medium, high); maternal smoking (never, ever); and alcohol consumption during pregnancy (never, 0–4 glasses per week, more than 4 glasses per week), maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (0-<18.5, 18.5-<25, ≥26) birth year (2001, 2002, 2003), offspring sex (male, female) reference categories have been italicized.