Table 2.

Unadjusted, Weighted Health at Age Three for Children Whose Mothers Did and Did Not Have Intellectual Disability

Child health outcome	Mothers had intellectual disability		Mothers did not have intellectual disability		Test statistic F	Effect Size OR [95% CI]	National Prevalence
	N	%	N	%			N	%
Fair/poor health	8	2.6	18	2.3	0.01	2.24 [.96, 5.21]	698a	2.7a
Asthma	60	12.3	231	9.5	0.72	1.36 [.99, 1.88]	2,519b	8.9b
Overweight/obese (≥ 85th Percentile)	91	28.3	427	33.4	0.31	1.07 [.80, 1.42]	1,770c	24.4c

Note. All variables are weighted to represent births occurring in large U.S. cities with populations of 200,000 or more between 1998 and 2000. Number of observations (N) is unweighted.

^aBased on data of children ages 0-5 years from the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health.

^bBased on data of children ages 0-5 years. from the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health.

^cBased on data of children ages 2-5 years from the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (Ogden, Carroll, & Flegal, 2008).

^*p < 0.05.

^**p < 0.01.

^***p < 0.001.