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.