Relative risks (RR) for the associations between prenatal and postnatal growth and whether the child had ever wheezed by age 3 years and was atopic compared with children who had never wheezed and were not atopic (unadjusted and adjusted) (N=542)
| Unadjusted analyses | Adjusted* analyses | |||||||
| RR | (95% CI) | p Value | n | RR | (95% CI) | p Value | n | |
| Birth size variables | ||||||||
| Crown–heel length | 1.09 | 0.94 to 1.26 | 0.247 | 527 | 1.08 | 0.93 to 1.26 | 0.313 | 456 |
| Weight | 1.06 | 0.91 to 1.23 | 0.461 | 537 | 1.02 | 0.87 to 1.19 | 0.810 | 465 |
| Conditional fetal growth | ||||||||
| 11–19 weeks | ||||||||
| Head circumference | 0.96 | 0.69 to 1.33 | 0.818 | 207 | 0.79 | 0.54 to 1.15 | 0.216 | 183 |
| Abdominal circumference | 1.42 | 1.05 to 1.92 | 0.024 | 197 | 1.32 | 0.94 to 1.85 | 0.114 | 172 |
| 19–34 weeks | ||||||||
| Head circumference | 0.98 | 0.80 to 1.21 | 0.866 | 308 | 0.88 | 0.69 to 1.12 | 0.294 | 276 |
| Abdominal circumference | 0.82 | 0.66 to 1.01 | 0.066 | 321 | 0.80 | 0.65 to 1.00 | 0.046 | 288 |
| Conditional infant growth | ||||||||
| 0–6 months | ||||||||
| Length | 1.00 | 0.86 to 1.16 | 0.987 | 518 | 0.96 | 0.82 to 1.12 | 0.602 | 499 |
| Weight | 1.25 | 1.09 to 1.43 | 0.001 | 530 | 1.22 | 1.03 to 1.43 | 0.020 | 460 |
| Subscapular skinfold | 1.22 | 1.07 to 1.40 | 0.004 | 533 | 1.27 | 1.09 to 1.49 | 0.002 | 463 |
| 6–12 months | ||||||||
| Length | 1.02 | 0.85 to 1.22 | 0.829 | 497 | 0.98 | 0.80 to 1.20 | 0.842 | 432 |
| Weight | 1.14 | 0.92 to 1.41 | 0.234 | 504 | 1.19 | 0.94 to 1.31 | 0.147 | 438 |
| Subscapular skinfold | 1.14 | 0.99 to 1.32 | 0.073 | 502 | 1.20 | 1.03 to 1.39 | 0.018 | 436 |
↵* Adjusted for gender, smoking during pregnancy, maternal asthma and maternal rhinitis, maternal atopy, paternal asthma, maternal education and birth order.