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. 2018 Aug 3;35:325–333. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.07.009

Table 2.

Association between EPA+DHA concentrations and risk of early preterm birth. Shown are results for EPA+DHA measurements solely based on sample 1 (Panel A), solely based on sample 2 (Panel B), mean of sample 1 and 2 (Panel C), and mean of sample 1 and 2 after restricting the analysis to only comprise women in concordant quintiles across sample 1 and 2 (Panel D).

Controls Cases Crude
Adjusteda
Controls Cases Further adjusted for 2nd//1st sample
OR (95% CI) P-Value OR (95% CI) P-Value OR (95% CI) P-Value
A: 1st trimester sample
 Test for association in spline regression <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
 Test for linear v. spline association 0.0002 0.001 0.007
EPA+DHA categorized into quintiles <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
 Q1: 0.37–1.48 67 192 5.54 (3.86; 8.02) <0.0001 5.47 (3.72; 8.14) <0.0001 66 186 3.62 (2.37; 5.58) <0.0001
 Q2: 1.48–1.81 67 71 2.05 (1.36; 3.09) 0.0006 1.90 (1.23; 2.95) 0.004 65 68 1.54 (0.95; 2.49) 0.08
 Q3-Q5: 1.81–4.74 199 103 1 1 196 102 1



B: 2nd trimester sample
 Test for association in spline regression <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
 Test for linear v. spline association <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
EPA+DHA categorized into quintiles <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
 Q1: 0.47–1.42 68 226 9.33 (6.42; 13.74) <0.0001 9.61 (6.46; 14.50) <0.0001 66 220 7.41 (4.87; 11.42) <0.0001
 Q2: 1.43–1.74 69 67 2.73 (1.78; 4.20) <0.0001 2.71 (1.72; 4.29) <0.0001 66 65 2.51 (1.56; 4.07) <0.0001
 Q3-Q5: 1.74–4.95 205 73 1 <0.0001
1 <0.0001
195 71 1 0.0002



C: Mean of 1st and 2nd trimester samples
 Test for association in spline regression <0.0001 <0.0001
 Test for linear v. spline association <0.0001 <0.0001
EPA+DHA categorized into quintiles <0.0001 <0.0001
 Q1: 0.69–1.56 66 224 9.64 (6.58,14.31) <0.0001 10.27 (6.80,15.79) <0.0001
 Q2: 1.56–1.82 65 63 2.75 (1.77,4.29) <0.0001 2.86 (1.79,4.59) <0.0001
 Q3-Q5: 1.82–4.11 196 69 1 1



D: Mean of 1st and 2nd trimester samples: concordant quintiles only
 Test for association in spline regression <0.0001 <0.0001
 Test for linear v. spline association <0.0001 <0.0001
EPA+DHA categorized into concordant quintiles <0.0001 <0.0001
 Q1: 1st: 0.37–1.48
2nd: 0.47–1.42
21 140 32.12 (15.03,74.33) <0.0001 48.29 (20.18,128.99) <0.0001
 Q2: 1st: 1.48–1.81
2nd: 1.43–1.74
18 18 4.82 (1.95,12.46) <0.0001 6.42 (2.36,18.61) <0.0001
 Q3-Q5: 1st: 1.81–4.74
2nd: 1.74–4.95
53 11 1 1
 Q4: 1st: 2.16–2.54
2nd: 2.05–2.45
 Q5: 1st: 2.55–4.74
2nd: 2.47–4.95

In the covariate-adjusted analyses, maternal age at birth, maternal height, and maternal pre-pregnancy BMI were in all analyses modelled as restricted cubic splines with 3 knots at the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, whereas parity, socioeconomic status (SES), cohabitation, residence, and smoking were categorized as in Table 1.

a

Adjusted for covariates: Maternal age at birth, maternal height, parity, maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, SES, cohabitation, residence and smoking.