Maternal Fish Consumption and Infant Birth Size and Gestation: New York State Angler Cohort Study

Table 2 Predictors of birth size – multiple linear regression

	Weight		Length		Head Circumference		Chest Circumference
Covariate
	β Coefficient	95% CI	β Coefficient	95% CI	β Coefficient	95% CI	β Coefficient	95% CI
Duration of maternal fish consumption
1–2 years	6.37	-46.75, 59.49	0.06	-0.23, 0.36	-0.04	-0.22, 0.14	-0.23	-0.54, 0.08
3–7 years	-20.46	-75.93, 35.02	0.03	-0.27, 0.33	-0.05	-0.24, 0.14	-0.24	-0.57, 0.09
8+ years	-37.62	-94.25, 19.01	0.06	-0.25, 0.36	-0.18	-0.38, 0.01	-0.29	-0.65, 0.06
Male infant	122.25	86.68, 157.85	0.82	0.62, 1.01	0.55	0.42, 0.67	0.37	0.17, 0.58
Number of daily cigarettes	-14.70	-17.45, -11.95	-0.07	-0.08, -0.05	-0.02	-0.03, -0.01	-0.04	-0.06, -0.03
Parity	99.64	75.78, 123.50	0.21	0.08, 0.34	0.20	0.12, 0.28	0.40	0.27, 0.54
Placental infarction	-232.84	-407.70, -57.97	-1.13	-2.07, -0.20			-1.25	-2.20, -0.30
Birth defect	83.94	31.92, 135.95	0.29	0.01, 0.58	0.25	0.07, 0.43
Gestation	146.13	131.13, 161.13	0.59	0.50, 0.67	0.32	0.27, 0.37	0.51	0.42, 0.59
Uterine bleeding			-0.28	-0.56, 0.01
*R-squared*	0.21		0.15		0.10		0.17
n	2,404		2,289		2,461		1,231

NOTE: Duration of maternal fish consumption refers to the number of years eating fish from Lake Ontario and its tributaries between 1955 and infant's year of birth. CI = confidence interval; n = sample size for each model

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