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. 2023 Jan 25;131(1):017004. doi: 10.1289/EHP11155

Figure 4.

Figure 4 is a set of four forest plots, plotting (bottom to top), volume-normalized oxidative potential measured by the ascorbic acid assay, volume-normalized oxidative potential measured by the dithiothreitol assay, particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 microns (left y-axis) and area under the reactance curve (hPa per Liter), reactance at a frequency of 7 hertz (hPa seconds per liter), difference between the resistance at 7 hertz and at 19 hertz (hPa seconds per liter), and resistance at a frequency of 7 hertz (hPa seconds per liter) (right y-axis) across beta, ranging negative 0.25 to 0.50 in increments of 0.25 (x-axis) for analysis, including Univariate, Main model, Complete Cases, 2 sampling periods, Excluding extreme values, Adjusted on Particulate matter, and Adjusted on nitrogen dioxide.

Association between personal exposure to PM2.5, OPvDTT, and OPvAA during pregnancy and lung function parameters measured at 3 y in the univariate and multiple linear models and in the sensitivity analyses. Outcomes and exposures were scaled by their IQR. See Tables S5 and S7 for corresponding numeric data. Whiskers represent the 95% confidence interval around the estimate. The main model was adjusted on child’s height, weight, sex, age, season of sampling, breastfeeding, environmental tobacco smoke, maternal age and BMI before pregnancy, parental level of education, parental history of rhinitis and mean temperature during pregnancy. In addition, “2 sampling periods” are the analyses reduced to the children that had 2 wk of prenatal measurements of air pollution (61% of the population); “Excluding extreme values” are the analyses excluding the exposures and outcomes below the first percentile and above the 99th (exclusion of approx. 5% of the population); “Adjusted on PM” corresponds to adding personal exposure to PM2.5 in the set of confounders; “Adjusted on NO2” corresponds to adding personal exposure to NO2 in the set of confounders. Note: AA, ascorbic acid; AX, area under the reactance curve; BMI, body mass index; DTT, dithiothreitol; IQR, interquartile range; OPvAA, volume-normalized oxidative potential measured by the AA assay (nmol/min/m3); OPvDTT, volume-normalized oxidative potential measured by the DTT assay (nmol/min/m3); PM, particulate matter; PM2.5, PM with an aerodynamic diameter <2.5μm (μg/m3); Rrs7, resistance at a frequency of 7 Hz; Rrs719, difference between the resistance at 7 Hz and at 19 Hz; Xrs7, reactance at a frequency of 7 Hz.