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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2021 Jul 8;202:111651. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111651

Table 1.

Characteristics of participating mother-child pairs from the Programming Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment, and Social Stressors (PROGRESS) study in Mexico City.


Characteristics PROGRESS Cohort (n = 543) Subset Included in Analysis (n = 320) p-value
Demographics, Median (IQR)
Child Age, years 9.67 (9.27-10.27) 10.03 (9.67-10.37) < 0.001
Maternal Age at Birth, years 28 (24-32) 28 (23-32) 0.96
Maternal IQ* 86 (76-94) 84 (74-93) 0.13
Maternal BMI 28.11 (25.5-31.7) 27.97 (25.31-31.21) 0.46
Socioeconomic Status, n (%) 0.996
Low 290 (53) 169 (53)
Medium 199 (37) 121 (38)
High 54 (10) 30 (9)
Maternal Education, n (%) 0.92
Low 225 (41) 130 (41)
Medium 196 (36) 119 (37)
High 122 (22) 71 (22)
Average Daily PM2.5 Exposure (μg/m3), Median (IQR)
Whole Pregnancy 22.81(20.75-24.18) 23.63(22.74-24.77) < 0.001
1st Trimester 21.89(19.13-25.82) 24.19(19.62-27.95) < 0.001
2nd Trimester 21.1(18.96-25.45) 22.94(19.69-26.71) < 0.001
3rd Trimester 22.4(18.97-27.53) 25.08(20.19-28.64) < 0.001
1st Postpartum Year 22.71(20.41-23.80) 22.63(20.02-24.04) 0.95
Go/No-Go Task Performance, Median (IQR)
Happy
False Alarm Rate, % 21 (12-29) 17 (8-29) 0.46
  Hit Rate, % 93 (89-97) 94 (89-99) 0.24
 Reaction Time (ms) 571.3 (526.8-616.1) 583.2 (535.7-632.2) 0.07
Reaction Time SD (ms) 165.9 (138.9-223.6) 147.7 (129.8-168.6) < 0.001
Neutral
 False Alarm Rate, % 21 (12-29) 21 (12-33) 0.98
  Hit Rate, % 92 (86-96) 93 (88-97) 0.26
  Reaction Time (ms) 572.3 (531.3-620.7) 591.3 (545.6-649) 0.003
Reaction Time SD (ms) 171.9 (140.7-234.9) 149.9 (130.3-173.7) < 0.001
Letter
 False Alarm Rate, % 21 (12-33) 21 (12-33) 0.47
  Hit Rate, % 97 (93-99) 97 (94-99) 0.09
 Reaction Time (ms) 498.1 (455.4-536.8) 501.4 (455.4-543.4) 0.46
Reaction Time SD (ms) 148.7 (124.4-184.8) 136.8 (116.7-161.7) < 0.001
*

The Spanish version of the Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence Scale-III was administered. Results are similar to other Latin American populations with similar levels of education (Sierra Sanjurjo et al., 2015).