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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 6.

Stratified adjusted and unadjusted associations of child assessment scores and neonatal dried blood spot total 25-hydroxyvitamin D

Mullen Early Learning Composite DQ Vineland Composite Standard Score
Variable n Estimate1 (SE) Interaction
P-Value
Estimate1 (SE) Interaction
P-Value
Child Gender
Male (crude) 595 1.33 (0.78)# 0.41 (0.61)
Female (crude) 130 3.53 (1.69)* 0.37 3.11 (1.42)* 0.0498
Male (adjusted2) 595 1.59 (0.84) 0.15 (0.65)
Female (adjusted2) 130 3.68 (1.79)* 0.26 3.00 (1.61)# 0.03
Child White Non-Hispanic
White Non-Hispanic (crude) 375 1.92 (1.05)# 1.72 (0.83)*
Hispanic (crude) 223 1.82 (1.54) −0.01 (1.19) 0.25
Other (crude)3 124 0.79 (1.76) 0.91 −0.31 (1.42) 0.20
White Non-Hispanic (adjusted) 375 1.59 (1.05) 0.56 1.54 (0.84)#
Hispanic (adjusted) 223 0.76 (1.56) 0.68 −0.54 (1.20)* 0.22
Other (adjusted)3 124 0.74 (1.80) 0.55 −0.24 (1.45) 0.19
Child Diagnosis2
ASD (crude)3 356 1.65 (0.82)* 0.051 0.002 (0.40) 0.86
DD (crude) 234 1.25 (1.12) 0.39 0.58 (0.67) 0.67
TD (crude) 134 0.04 (0.63) −0.07 (0.65)
ASD (adjusted2)3 356 1.55 (0.83)# 0.12 0.12 (0.39) 0.64
DD (adjusted2) 234 1.53 (1.15) 0.45 0.78 (0.70) 0.41
TD (adjusted2) 134 −0.41 (0.62) −0.17 (0.70)

SE = standard error;

*

p < .05;

#

p < .10.

1

Reported for 25 nmol/L increase in neonatal dried blood spot 25(OH)D;

2

Adjusted for maternal education and pre-pregnancy body mass index

3

Missing 1 observation