Table 3.

Associations between children’s LTL with in utero vitamin D

	Unadjusted			Model 1			Model 2
	Unstd Beta	SE	P	Unstd Beta	SE	P	Unstd Beta	SE	P
Maternal 25(OH)D total	0.003	0.001	0.001	0.056	0.017	0.001	0.048	0.017	0.004
Maternal 25(OH)D3	0.003	0.001	0.001	0.054	0.017	0.001	0.046	0.017	0.005
Maternal 3-epi-25(OH)D3	0.038	0.012	0.002	0.056	0.017	0.001	0.05	0.017	0.003
Cord 25(OH)D total	0.001	0.001	0.296	0.029	0.018	0.099	0.031	0.018	0.085
Cord 25(OH)D3	0.001	0.001	0.308	0.028	0.018	0.115	0.03	0.018	0.095
Cord 3-epi-25(OH)D3	0.034	0.014	0.017	0.037	0.018	0.035	0.029	0.018	0.100

Unadjusted: No adjustment. Model 1 (basic) adjusted: sex and age at childhood. Model 2 (maternal and offspring confounders) adjusted: Model 1 + childhood body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure, gestational age, and exercise level parity, maternal age at estimated date of confinement, maternal systolic blood pressure, current maternal and paternal diabetes mellitus, C-section, maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, maternal glucose area under the curve (at 28 weeks).

Abbreviations: C-section, cesarean section; LTL, leukocyte telomere length.