Table 1 |
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| Study population characteristics and association with celiac disease | ||||
| Descriptive | ||||
| Exposuresa | Cases | Referents | BIVARIATE ANALYSES | P-VALUE |
| [n=373] | [n=581] | OR (95% CI) b | ||
| n (%) | n (%) | |||
| Siblings in preschool age | ||||
| Yes | 215 (58) | 333 (57) | 1.0 | |
| No | 158 (42) | 248 (43) | 0.99 (0.74-1.3) | 0.923 |
| Family socioeconomic status | ||||
| High-Medium | 193 (52) | 358 (62) | 1.0 | |
| Low | 180 (48) | 223 (38) | 1.5 (1.2-1.9)c | 0.002 |
| Breastfeeding at introduction of glutend | ||||
| Discontinued | 202 (54) | 192 (33) | 1.0 | |
| Continued same month | 88 (24) | 147 (25) | 0.55 (0.39-0.78) | 0.001 |
| Continued beyond | 83 (22) | 242 (42) | 0.32 (0.23-0.45) | <0.001 |
| Amount of flour per day two weeks after introductiond | ||||
| Small-Medium | 189 (51) | 373 (64) | 1.0 | |
| Large | 184 (49) | 208 (36) | 1.9 (1.4-2.6) | <0.001 |
a Exposures before six months of age.
b Bivariate conditional logistic regression using matched sets of cases with 1–2 referents.
c Preliminary version of this result has previously been included in book chapters [22-25].
d These data has previously been published [9]. The data presented are based on the subset.
of infants included in the current study (see Methods) and is included in the multivariate analyses.
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