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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2019 Dec 14;182:109044. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.109044

Table 4.

Association between Prenatal log10PFOA Levels (ng/mL) and Growth Characteristics (N=1,334 mother-child pairs)

Sex Growth Characteristic Est SE LL UL p
All Children Log of Infant Slope (log10β1) −0.06 0.03 −0.11 −0.01 0.02
Boys −0.03 0.04 −0.10 0.04 0.37
Girls −0.09 0.04 −0.16 −0.01 0.02
All Children Log of Infant Spurt Duration (log10Δt1) 0.06 0.03 0.01 0.11 0.02
Boys 0.03 0.04 −0.04 0.10 0.37
Girls 0.09 0.04 0.01 0.16 0.02
All Children Log of Infant PGVa −0.02 0.02 −0.05 0.02 0.35
Boys −0.02 0.02 −0.07 0.03 0.42
Girls −0.01 0.02 −0.06 0.04 0.62
All Children Age of Infant PGV (δ1) 0.58 0.21 0.17 0.99 0.01*
Boys 0.14 0.27 −0.39 0.67 0.60
Girls 1.01 0.32 0.38 1.65 <0.01*
All Children Infant Weight Plateau (α1) 0.81 0.30 0.21 1.41 0.01*
Boys 0.26 0.41 −0.54 1.06 0.53
Girls 1.37 0.46 0.47 2.27 <0.01*

Abbreviations:

*

statistically significant after Benjamini-Hochberg correction for false discovery

Est, linear regression coefficient estimate; LL, 95% confidence interval lower limit; p, p-value; PGV, peak growth velocity; SE, standard error; UL, 95% confidence interval upper limit

Notes: Models adjusted for sex, preterm birth, mother’s age, weight, parity, and smoking

a

PGV was approximated using the first term in Equation 8