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Published in final edited form as: J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2021 Sep 1;30(11):1556–1564. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8946

Table 4.

Associations between multivitamin use, caffeine intake, alcohol use, smoking, and drug use and urinary tract infection in pregnancy—cross-sectional analysis of the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2011.

Total number Reported UTI prevalence (%) Crude prevalence ratio (95% CI) Adjusted prevalence ratioa (95% CI)

Multivitamin use
 Yes 38,612 18 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
 No 2,973 21 1.16 (1.07, 1.24) 0.99 (0.92, 1.07)
 Missing 284
Caffeine intake (mg/day)b
 <10 6,934 16 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
 10–99 14,531 18 1.15 (1.08, 1.23) 1.06 (0.99, 1.13)
 100–199 9,856 18 1.15 (1.08, 1.24) 1.10 (1.02, 1.17)
 200–299 5,180 19 1.19 (1.10, 1.29) 1.16 (1.07, 1.26)
 ≥300 4,477 22 1.38 (1.28, 1.50) 1.26 (1.16, 1.36)
 Missing 891
Alcohol use
 Yes 9,836 18 0.95 (0.91, 1.00) 1.02 (0.97, 1.07)
 No 31,055 19 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
 Missing 978
Smoking
 Yes 7,113 24 1.42 (1.36, 1.49) 1.24 (1.18, 1.30)
 No 33,954 17 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
 Missing 802
Marijuana use
 Yes 2,169 26 1.44 (1.34, 1.55) 1.05 (0.97, 1.13)
 No 38,875 18 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
 Missing 825
Cocaine use
 Yes 319 30 1.64 (1.37, 1.93) 1.16 (0.97, 1.36)
 No 40,732 18 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
 Missing 818
Methamphetamine usec
 Yes 250 29 1.57 (1.27, 1.88) 1.05 (0.85, 1.27)
 No 41,131 18 1.00 (Reference) 1.00 (Reference)
 Missing 488

CI, confidence interval; UTI, urinary tract infection.

a

Adjusted for birth defect status, study site, age at conception, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and smoking during pregnancy.

b

Usual caffeine intake in the year before pregnancy.

c

This variable was collected from free text. The number of missing values is the number of women who did not answer the question leading to the free text response.