Table 4.
Multivariate regression models: Biomarkers and number of children
| log(Fibrinogen) | log(CRP) | Glycated Hemoglobin | Cholesterol Ratio (Total/HDL) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men B/CI |
Women B/CI |
Men B/CI |
Women B/CI |
Men B/CI |
Women B/CI |
Men B/CI |
Women B/CI |
|
| Number of Children (ref. = 2 children) | ||||||||
| 0 | 0.009 | 0.016 | 0.029 | 0.067 | –0.021 | 0.038 | –0.046 | –0.077 |
| –0.01,0.03 | –0.00,0.04 | –0.08,0.13 | –0.06,0.19 | –0.09,0.05 | –0.02,0.10 | –0.16,0.07 | –0.17,0.02 | |
| 1 | 0.012 | 0.008 | –0.003 | 0.051 | –0.035 | 0.032 | –0.036 | –0.080† |
| –0.01,0.03 | –0.01,0.03 | –0.11,0.10 | –0.07,0.17 | –0.11,0.04 | –0.03,0.09 | –0.15,0.08 | –0.18,0.02 | |
| 3 | –0.001 | –0.01 | –0.026 | –0.011 | –0.025 | 0.007 | 0.009 | –0.007 |
| –0.02,0.02 | –0.03,0.01 | –0.13,0.08 | –0.12,0.10 | –0.10,0.05 | –0.05,0.06 | –0.10,0.12 | –0.09,0.08 | |
| 4+ | 0.013 | 0.005 | 0.01 | 0.031 | 0.123* | 0.129* | 0.039 | 0.083 |
| –0.01,0.04 | –0.02,0.03 | –0.14,0.16 | –0.13,0.19 | 0.02,0.23 | 0.05,0.21 | –0.13,0.20 | –0.04,0.20 | |
| N | 3,699 | 3,713 | 3,709 | 3,712 | 3,824 | 3,820 | 3,770 | 3,766 |
| High Blood Pressure | Obesity | WHR × 10 | FEV1/FVC | Metabolic Syndrome | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men OR/CI |
Women OR/CI |
Men OR/CI |
Women OR/CI |
Men B/CI |
Women B/CI |
Men B/CI |
Women B/CI |
Men OR/CI |
Women OR/CI |
|
| Number of Children (ref. = 2 children) | ||||||||||
| 0 | 1.006 | 1.092 | 1.044 | 1.037 | 0.019 | –0.031 | –0.011† | 0.001 | 0.877 | 0.780* |
| 0.79,1.28 | 0.74,1.60 | 0.85,1.28 | 0.83,1.29 | –0.03,0.07 | –0.09,0.02 | –0.02,–0.00 | –0.01,0.01 | 0.73,1.06 | 0.62,0.99 | |
| 1 | 0.97 | 0.95 | 0.866 | 1.056 | –0.033 | 0.005 | –0.005 | 0.002 | 0.800* | 0.839 |
| 0.76,1.23 | 0.64,1.41 | 0.70,1.07 | 0.85,1.31 | –0.08,0.02 | –0.05,0.06 | –0.02,0.01 | –0.01,0.01 | 0.66,0.97 | 0.67,1.05 | |
| 3 | 0.904 | 0.762 | 1.082 | 1.053 | –0.019 | 0.054* | –0.005 | 0.003 | 0.819* | 1.13 |
| 0.70,1.16 | 0.52,1.12 | 0.88,1.34 | 0.86,1.29 | –0.07,0.03 | 0.00,0.11 | –0.02,0.01 | –0.01,0.01 | 0.68,0.99 | 0.92,1.38 | |
| 4+ | 1.049 | 1.072 | 1.125 | 1.237 | –0.011 | 0.078* | –0.009 | 0.003 | 1.096 | 1.524* |
| 0.74,1.49 | 0.65,1.76 | 0.84,1.50 | 0.95,1.62 | –0.08,0.06 | 0.01,0.15 | –0.02,0.01 | –0.01,0.02 | 0.83,1.44 | 1.17,1.99 | |
| N | 4,424 | 4,470 | 4,405 | 4,473 | 4,444 | 4,517 | 4,343 | 4,421 | 3,980 | 4,011 |
Notes: Included confounders are social class at birth, parental years of education, mother stayed at school beyond the minimum leaving age, financial hardship at age 11, overcrowding at age 11, housing conditions at age 11, birth weight, mother smoked during pregnancy, child was out of school for a month or more because of health problems, number of hospitalizations before age 11, enuresis at ages 7and 11, poor physical coordination at age 11, mental health at ages 7 and 11, Rutter Behaviour Scales completed by the mother at child’s ages 7 and 11, family difficulties at age 7, parental divorce before age 11, smoking at age 16, cognitive ability at age 11, need for special education at age 11, parents’ interest in the respondent’s education at age 11, ethnicity, level of education at age 23, number of partnerships by age 42, ever unemployed between January 1978 and December 2001, and age at the biomedical interview.
†p < .10; *p < .05