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. 2016 Sep 1;2016:189.

Table 13.

Estimated ORs and 95% CIs for PTB and LBW Attributable to Maternal Exposure to Pollutants During Entire Pregnancy for 6,787 Cases and Controls Who Did Not Relocate During Pregnancy in the Nested Case-Control Study (Wuhan, China; August 19, 2010–June 9, 2013)a

Pollutant Model 1b Model 2c Model 3d Model 4e
OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
PTB
PM2.5 1.10 (0.98, 1.23) 1.11 (0.98, 1.26) 1.12 (0.99, 1.27) 1.14 (1.01, 1.29)
PM10 1.11 (1.00, 1.23) 1.16 (1.00, 1.35) 1.17 (1.01, 1.36) 1.19 (1.02, 1.38)
SO2 1.03 (0.92, 1.14) 0.95 (0.84, 1.09) 0.93 (0.82, 1.07) 0.95 (0.84, 1.08)
NO2 1.09 (0.98, 1.21) 1.07 (0.94, 1.22) 1.07 (0.94, 1.21) 1.07 (0.94, 1.22)
CO 1.13 (1.01, 1.25) 1.17 (1.01, 1.36) 1.20 (1.03, 1.40) 1.20 (1.04, 1.40)
O3 1.06 (0.95, 1.17) 1.21 (1.04, 1.39) 1.21 (1.04, 1.40) 1.21 (1.05, 1.40)
LBW
PM2.5 1.11 (0.98, 1.27) 1.13 (0.98, 1.30) 1.14 (0.98, 1.31) 1.14 (0.99, 1.31)
PM10 1.01 (0.90, 1.14) 1.03 (0.87, 1.21) 1.03 (0.87, 1.22) 1.05 (0.89, 1.24)
SO2 0.99 (0.88, 1.12) 0.95 (0.82, 1.10) 0.94 (0.81, 1.09) 0.93 (0.78, 1.11)
NO2 1.03 (0.91, 1.16) 1.02 (0.88, 1.18) 1.00 (0.87, 1.16) 1.01 (0.88, 1.17)
CO 1.02 (0.90, 1.15) 1.06 (0.89, 1.27) 1.07 (0.89, 1.28) 1.07 (0.90, 1.28)
O3 1.07 (0.95, 1.20) 1.12 (0.95, 1.32) 1.13 (0.96, 1.34) 1.12 (0.96, 1.32)

a The cut points were values close to medians of pollutants. Specifically for PTB they were 63.7 μg/m3 for PM2.5, 96.6 μg/m3 for PM10, 34.9 μg/m3 for SO2, 58.8 μg/m3 for NO2, 987.5 μg/m3 for CO, and 70.8 μg/m3 for O3; and for LBW they were 63.5 μg/m3 for PM2.5, 99.1 μg/m3 for PM10, 34.9 μg/m3 for SO2, 58.9 μg/m3 for NO2, 1010.8 μg/m3 for CO, and 72.3 μg/m3 for O3.

b ORs were estimated as the increase in the crude odds.

c Adjusted for covariates from the delivery data, including maternal age, maternal educational attainment, maternal occupation, gravidity, parity, infant sex, season of conception, and temperature at conception.

d Adjusted for covariates from the delivery data plus additional covariates from the survey, including total household income, SHS exposure, depression during pregnancy, and vaginal bleeding during pregnancy.

e Two-phase models that adjusted for covariates from both the delivery data and survey data in model 3.