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. 2021 Aug 20;32(4):530–537. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00378-6

Table 3.

HbA1c generalized additive model results.

Pollutant 1-day average 1-week average 1-month average 3-month average 6-month average 1-year average
NO2 (ppb) IQRs 9.4 10.1 9.7 9.3 6.0 2.2
   Estimate –0.06 –0.08 0.03 –0.11 –0.07 –0.05
   95% CI (–0.14, 0.02) (–0.17, 0.02) (–0.16, 0.21) (–0.37, 0.14) (–0.27, 0.12) (–0.14, 0.04)
   P value 0.12 0.12 0.78 0.39 0.46 0.31
NOx (ppb) IQRs 13.1 13.4 14.7 12.6 8.7 3.5
   Estimate –0.03 –0.07 –0.01 –0.11 –0.06 –0.03
   95% CI (–0.1, 0.05) (–0.16, 0.02) (–0.17, 0.15) (–0.27, 0.06) (–0.19, 0.06) (–0.09, 0.02)
   P value 0.46 0.15 0.89 0.21 0.34 0.25
PAH456 (ng/m3) IQRs 7.7 7.9 8.4 7.9 5.2 0.8
   Estimate 0.05 –0.07 0.23 –0.18 0.08 –0.01
   95% CI (–0.1, 0.2) (–0.26, 0.12) (–0.01, 0.46) (–0.59, 0.24) (–0.27, 0.42) (–0.08, 0.07)
   P value 0.5 0.48 0.06 0.4 0.66 0.88
EC (μg/m3) IQRs 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1
   Estimate –0.06 –0.07 0.04 –0.12 –0.06 –0.06
   95% CI (–0.14, 0.01) (–0.14, 0) (–0.07, 0.16) (–0.28, 0.04) (–0.2, 0.07) (–0.13, 0.01)
   P value 0.1 0.04 0.47 0.13 0.37 0.1
CO (ppm) IQRs 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.1
   Estimate –0.02 –0.1 0.03 –0.21 –0.01 –0.03
   95% CI (–0.11, 0.07) (–0.23, 0.04) (–0.24, 0.29) (–0.61, 0.18) (–0.32, 0.31) (–0.13, 0.08)
   P value 0.65 0.15 0.84 0.29 0.97 0.62
PM2.5 (μg/m3) IQRs 11.9 14.7 16.5 13.7 9.8 3.6
   Estimate –0.04 –0.04 0.14 –0.16 –0.06 0.01
   95% CI (–0.08, 0.01) (–0.12, 0.04) (–0.02, 0.29) (–0.36, 0.03) (–0.35, 0.22) (–0.19, 0.2)
   P value 0.1 0.32 0.09 0.09 0.67 0.93

All results are absolute changes in % hemoglobin A1c per interquartile range (IQR) of the pollutant. These estimates come from a GAM model that adjusted for whether or not the child lives with a smoker, whether or not the child is Latinx, physical activity, household income, and a smoothed term for day of study.