Table 3.
Adjusted associations† from the WQS linear regression between prenatal EDC mixture and children´s growth characteristics, overall and by sex, n = 1,118.
| Overall (n = 1,118) |
Boys‡ (n = 584) |
Girls‡ (n = 534) |
p-valueint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WQS index estimate (95% CI), p-value | WQS index estimate (95% CI), p-value |
WQS index estimate (95% CI), p-value |
||
| Birthweight z-scores | − 0.11 (− 0.16, − 0.06), < 0.001 | − 0.22 (− 0.37, − 0.07), 0.004 | − 0.29 (− 0.44, − 0.14), < 0.001 | 0.526 |
| Log10 of infant growth spurt rate (kg/months) | − 0.01 (− 0.03, − 0.004), 0.007 | − 0.08 (− 0.11, − 0.05), < 0.001 | − 0.05 (− 0.08, − 0.01), 0.005 | 0.103 |
| Infant age at PGV (months) | 0.15 (0.07, 0.24), < 0.001 | − 0.04 (− 0.30, 0.22), 0.760 | 0.51 (0.26, 0.76), < 0.001 | 0.002 |
Abbreviations: PGV = Peak growth velocity.
†Adjusted for maternal age, BMI, education, smoking, parity, child’s sex and gestational age at birth. Models with birthweight z-scores as outcome were not adjusted for sex or gestational age. Stratified models were not adjusted for sex.
‡Results are derived from the stratified WQS model allowing for sex-specific weights and including the interaction term WQS*sex (p-valueint).