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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2019 May 16;12(6):976–988. doi: 10.1002/aur.2118

Table 5.

Stratified adjusted1 and unadjusted associations of diagnosis with neonatal total 25-hydroxyvitamin D

Vitamin D, Mean (SD) ASD vs. TD DD vs. TD
Variable TD
(n = 234)
ASD
(n = 357)
DD
(n = 134)
OR (95% CI) Interaction
P-Value
OR (95% CI) Interaction
P-Value
Child Gender
Male 191 310 94
Female 43 47 40
Male (crude) 80.4 (37.6) 81.1 (38.1) 72.8 (36.8) 1.01 (0.90–1.14) 0.86 (0.72–1.03)#
Female (crude) 92.7 (45.1) 73.0 (31.8) 74.3 (40.0) 0.73 (0.55–0.96)* 0.04 0.75 (0.56–0.99)* 0.52
Male (adjusted) 1.03 (0.91–1.17) 0.93 (0.78–1.12)
Female (adjusted) 0.74 (0.55–0.99)* 0.03 0.79 (0.59–1.08) 0.39
Child Race/Ethnicity2
White Non-Hispanic 125 191 59
Hispanic 63 104 56
Other 46 62 17
White Non-Hispanic (crude) 93.0 (42.8) 86.8 (35.1) 78.5 (35.2) 0.90 (0.78–1.04) 0.77 (0.62–0.95)*
Hispanic (crude) 72.6 (30.4) 70.7 (33.9) 71.5 (32.8) 0.96 (0.75–1.21) 0.66 0.95 (0.72–1.25) 0.22
Other (crude) 68.6 (32.2) 74.9 (45.5) 64.4 (56.9) 1.09 (0.87–1.37) 0.16 0.93 (0.65–1.34) 0.37
White Non-Hispanic (adjusted) 0.91 (0.79–1.06) 0.79 (0.63–0.98)*
Hispanic (adjusted) 0.98 (0.77–1.26) 0.64 1.14 (0.85–1.54) 0.11
Other (adjusted) 1.05 (0.83–1.34) 0.17 0.96 (0.66–1.38) 0.31

Note: OR = odds ratio; OR are reported for 25 nmol/L increase in 25(OH)D.

*

p < .05;

#

p < .10.

1

Adjusted for maternal education and pre-pregnancy body mass index; adjusted models were performed using multiple imputations (n = 10), to account for the fact that some covariates were missing;

2

Missing for 2 DD children.