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. 2019 Sep 30;55(1):236–244. doi: 10.1002/ppul.24532

Table 3.

Longitudinal association between psychological adversity measures and infant lung function measures accounting for within group correlations from 6 to 10 weeks through 12 months

Functional residual capacity Tidal volume Respiratory rate tPTEF/tE
Adjusted β coefficient (95% CI) P Adjusted β coefficient (95% CI) P Adjusted β coefficient (95% CI) P Adjusted β coefficient (95% CI) P
Prenatal IPV −.037 (−0.074, −0.001) .043 .006 (−0.079, 0.092) .884 −.054 (−0.133, 0.024) .179 −.052 (−0.079, −0.026) <.0001
Postnatal IPV −.086 (−0.108, −0.064) <.0001 .008 (−0.080, 0.098) .845 −.030 (−0.072, 0.10) .145 −.200 (−0.223, −0.176) <.0001
Prenatal PTSD exposure
None Ref Ref Ref Ref
Suspected exposure −.009 (−0.078, 0.059) .789 .002 (−0.048, 0.052) .934 −.026 (−0.083, 0.030) .367 −.006 (−0.033, 0.019) .599
Definite exposure .045 (0.035, 0.055) <.0001 .026 (0.004, 0.048) .018 −.027 (−0.053, −0.001) .038 −.078 (−0.104, −0.052) <.0001
Prenatal PTSD exposure a .017 (0.010, 0.023) <.0001 .011 (0.010, 0.011) <.0001 −.015 (−0.036, 0.004) .125 −.034 (−0.040, −0.027) <.0001
Prenatal depression .026 (0.023, 0.028) <.0001 .002 (−0.013, 0.019) .731 −.019 (−0.089, 0.051) .595 −.002 (−0.026, 0.022) .855
Postnatal depression .021 (0.017, 0.025) <.0001 .002 (−0.003, 0.007) .462 −.004 (−0.024, 0.014) .635 .036 (−0.011, 0.084) .138

Note: Models adjusted for sex, socioeconomic status, race, exposure to benzene, height‐for‐age z scores, perinatal complications and maternal age, respiratory illness, or HIV. Bold values represent associations that reached a P‐value of <0.05. There were no results for the associations with postnatal PTSD exposure because of few observations.

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; IPV, intimate partner violence, PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder. tPTEF/tE, ratio of time to peak tidal expiratory flow over total expiratory time.

a

Assumption of no departure from linear trend for postnatal PTSD because of small samples.