Effect of Prenatal Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Exposure on Birth Outcomes: The Polish Mother and Child Cohort Study

Table 4

Association between PAH metabolites and anthropometric measures at birth (adjusted for gestational age and the newborns’ gender).

PAH metabolites*	Birth weight (g)			Cephalization index (cm/g)			Chest circumference (cm)			Child length (cm)			Head circumference (cm)			Ponderal index (g/cm^3)
	𝛽	SE	𝑃	𝛽	SE	𝑃	𝛽	SE	𝑃	𝛽	SE	𝑃	𝛽	SE	𝑃	𝛽	SE	𝑃
1-OH-PHE	−76	66	0.2	1.5	1.6	0.3	−0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.4	0.8	−0.2	0.3	0.5	−0.05	0.03	0.1
2-OH-PHE	−59	66	0.4	1.1	1.6	0.5	−0.3	0.3	0.3	0.04	0.4	0.9	−0.2	0.3	0.4	−0.03	0.03	0.4
3-OH-PHE	−46	53	0.4	1.4	1.3	0.3	−0.04	0.2	0.9	0.1	0.4	0.8	−0.01	0.2	1	−0.03	0.03	0.3
4-OH-PHE	−62	57	0.3	1.9	1.4	0.2	−0.2	0.2	0.4	−0.2	0.4	0.5	−0.1	0.2	0.6	−0.02	0.03	0.5
9-OH-PHE	−43	47	0.4	1.5	1.1	0.2	−0.1	0.2	0.6	0.1	0.3	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.7	−0.02	0.02	0.4
∑OH-PHE	−69	66	0.3	1.5	1.6	0.3	−0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.8	−0.1	0.3	0.6	−0.04	0.03	0.2
PHE-1,2-diol	7	27	0.8	−0.2	0.7	0.8	−0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.7	−0.03	0.1	0.8	−0.00	0.01	0.8
PHE-9,10-diol	−19	23	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.7	−0.1	0.1	0.5	−0.01	0.2	1	−0.1	0.1	0.2	−0.01	0.01	0.4
∑PHE-diol	−14	29	0.6	0.2	0.7	0.8	−0.1	0.1	0.3	0.03	0.2	0.9	−0.1	0.1	0.3	−0.02	0.02	0.3
1-OH-PYR	−26	62	0.7	0.01	1.5	1	−0.3	0.3	0.2	−0.2	0.4	0.6	−0.3	0.2	0.3	−0.01	0.03	0.7
DI-OH-PYR	−13	38	0.7	0.03	0.9	1	−0.1	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.8	−0.1	0.1	0.5	−0.02	0.02	0.3
∑OH-PYR	−31	58	0.6	0.2	1.4	0.9	−0.3	0.2	0.2	−0.1	0.4	0.8	−0.2	0.2	0.3	−0.02	0.03	0.5

𝛽: beta coefficient (and SE standard error).
𝑃:𝑃 value.
∗PAH metabolites were log-transformed.