Sex-Specific Association between Childhood BMI Trajectories and Asthma Phenotypes

Table 3

Results from multivariate analysis of asthma phenotype (persistent and transient asthma).

	Persistent asthma
BMI Trajectory groups	Females				Males
	OR	95% CI		p value	OR	95% CI		p value
		Low	High			Low	High
Increasing	4.09	1.04	16.15	0.0442	0.80	0.26	2.44	0.68
Decreasing	0.67	0.08	5.51	0.71	0.81	0.17	3.86	0.79
Stable	1				1
	Transient asthma
Increasing	1.56	0.82	2.95	0.17	0.75	0.45	1.23	0.25
Decreasing	1.46	0.43	4.95	0.52	0.67	0.29	1.53	0.33
Stable	1				1

The following confounders were included in the multivariate analysis: age of child at baseline, father’s age at birth, PMK current daily smoking status, PMK daily cigarettes, household ownership status, biological mother’s history of asthma, and childhood allergy status.