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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2019 Sep 6;177(1):47–57. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18030335

TABLE 2.

Statistical models assessing the impact of maternal Adverse Childhood Experience questionnaire (ACE) score on infant telomere lengtha

Model 1: Main Effectsb Model 2: Adjusted Modelb
Variable β p B p
Age −1.757 <0.0001 −1.143 <0.0001
Age-squared 0.744 <0.0001 0.738 <0.0001
ACE score −0.031 0.033 −0.039 0.021
PNMS score 0.027 0.30
Sex −0.052 0.39
Race −0.041 0.43
Socioeconomic status index −0.014 0.45
Maternal depression 0.004 0.96
a

PNMS=Prenatal maternal stress index. Please see the text for details on PNMS, socioeconomic status index, and maternal depression

b

Postnatal visits with 155 mother-infant dyads occurred at 4, 12, and 18 months of age, with 428 observations.