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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2018 May 22;72(9):852–855. doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-210004

Table II.

Difference in growth measures from birth through 3 years of age comparing offspring of mothers with PCOS to offspring of mothers without PCOS in the Upstate KIDS Study

Unadjusted Fully adjusted
Lower Upper Lower Upper
Beta 95% CI 95% CI p-value Beta 95% CI 95% CI p-value


All children (n=4,098)
Weight (g) 119.79 −48.07 287.64 0.16   4.81 −95.09 104.71 0.92
Weight for age (z-score) −0.09 −0.19 0.02 0.10 −0.06 −0.15 0.04 0.24
Length (cm) 0.94 0.26 1.63 0.01   0.18 −0.16 0.52 0.30
Length for age (z-score) −0.02 −0.16 0.12 0.78   0.04 −0.08 0.16 0.48
BMI (kg/m2) −0.16 −0.32 0.00 0.05 −0.14 −0.30 0.01 0.07
BMI (z-score) −0.12 −0.23 −0.02 0.02 −0.09 −0.19 0.01 0.08
Singletons (n=3,204)
Weight (g) 186.11 −71.79 444.02 0.16   2.96 −128.03 133.94 0.96
Weight for age (z-score) −0.01 −0.13 0.11 0.86 −0.08 −0.20 0.05 0.22
Length (cm) 1.20 0.26 2.14 0.01   0.26 −0.18 0.71 0.25
Length for age (z-score) 0.13 −0.03 0.29 0.11   0.07 −0.09 0.23 0.41
BMI (kg/m2) −0.07 −0.27 0.14 0.53 −0.18 −0.38 0.02 0.07
BMI (z-score) −0.08 −0.20 0.05 0.25 −0.13 −0.26 0.00 0.06
Twins (n=894)
Weight (g) 224.14 −35.74 484.02 0.09 −3.07 −119.72 113.57 0.96
Weight for age (z-score) 0.05 −0.09 0.18 0.48 −0.05 −0.18 0.07 0.41
Length (cm) 0.84 −0.24 1.93 0.13 −0.05 −0.43 0.34 0.81
Length for age (z-score) 0.06 −0.13 0.25 0.55 −0.02 −0.19 0.15 0.80
BMI (kg/m2) −0.03 −0.29 0.23 0.83 −0.08 −0.31 0.15 0.49
BMI (z-score) 0.00 −0.17 0.16 0.97 −0.04 −0.19 0.11 0.58

Fully adjusted model adjusted for maternal age, maternal body mass index, age at exam, race/ethnicity, marital status, private insurance, education, smoking during pregnancy, drinking during pregnancy, any diabetes, and plurality