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. 2020 Aug 24;190(5):728–737. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa182

Table 3.

Maternal Smoking and Autism Spectrum Disorder According to Intellectual Disability Status in the Full Cohort and the Case-Sibling-Cohorta Births 2007–2010, California.

Smoking Status With ID Without ID
No. of Cases No. of Noncases OR b 95% CI No. of Cases No. of Noncases OR b 95% CI
Full cohort
 Never smokers 1,144 1,898,355 1.00 Referent 9,891 1,898,355 1.00 Referent
 Ever smokersc 51 71,366 1.12 0.84, 1.49 413 71,366 1.15 1.04, 1.27
 Prepregnancy smokersd 13 23,952 0.81 0.46, 1.43 159 23,952 1.26 1.07, 1.48
 Continued smokerse 37 45,718 1.29 0.92, 1.81 245 45,718 1.09 0.95, 1.24
 During pregnancyf, no. of cigarettes/day
  1–19 32 40,007 1.27 0.89, 1.82 201 40,007 1.02 0.88, 1.18
  ≥20 7 8,103 1.42 0.67, 3.01 61 8,103 1.57 1.21, 2.03
Sibling cohorta
 Never smokers 259 259 1.00 Referent 2,304 2,256 1.00 Referent
 Ever smokersc 13 10 4.62 1.00, 21.44 76 74 0.82 0.50, 1.34
 Prepregnancy smokersd 2 2 3.04 0.38, 24.52 24 25 0.87 0.43, 1.77
 Continued smokerse 11 7 g g 50 49 0.79 0.43, 1.46
 During pregnancyf, no. of cigarettes/day
  1–19 7 7 3.87 0.33, 46.10 45 43 0.83 0.45, 1.55
  ≥20 4 1 g g 8 7 0.89 0.65, 1.53

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; ID, intellectual disability; OR, odds ratio.

a Includes all siblings with at least 1 case among the siblings.

b Adjusted for birth year, sex, maternal age, maternal race/ethnicity, maternal education, parity, and pregnancy complication.

c Smoked 3 months before pregnancy or any time during pregnancy.

d Smoked 3 months before pregnancy but stopped smoking during pregnancy.

e Smoked 3 months before pregnancy and kept smoking during pregnancy.

f Smoking was defined as maximum number of cigarettes/day during any trimester.

g Models did not converge due to distribution of n resulting in small n in some cells.