Maternal Distress during Pregnancy and Offspring Childhood Overweight

Table 3

Maternal distress during pregnancy and risk of childhood overweight at age 7.

	All children			Boys			Girls
		Crude OR	Adjusted1		Crude OR	Adjusted1	Crude risk	Crude OR	Adjusted1
	Overweight %	95% (CI)	95% (CI)	Overweight %	95% (CI)	95% (CI)	Overweight %	95% (CI)	95% (CI)
Maternal distress
A little	9.63	Ref.	Ref.	8.4	Ref.	Ref.	11.1	Ref.	Ref.
A lot	11.27	1.19	1.06; (0.96; 1.18)	10.7	1.30	1.15; (0.99; 1.33)	11.8	1.08	0.98; (0.85; 1.13)
Feeling anxious
A little	9.73	Ref.	Ref.	8.5	Ref.	Ref.	11.1	Ref.	Ref.
A lot	10.91	1.14	1.06; (0.95; 1.17)	10.7	1.29	1.15; (0.99; 1.34)	11.2	1.00	0.97; (0.84; 1.12)
Feeling depressed
A little	9.61	Ref.	Ref.	8.4	Ref.	Ref.	10.9	Ref.	Ref.
A lot	11.09	1.17	1.02; (0.94; 1.12)	10.2	1.24	1.07; (0.93; 1.21)	12.0	1.11	0.99; (0.87; 1.12)
Feeling stressed
A little	9.65	Ref.	Ref.	8.4	Ref.	Ref.	11.0	Ref.	Ref.
A lot	10.74	1.13	1.05; (0.97; 1.14)	9.9	1.20	1.11; (0.98; 1.25)	11.6	1.06	1.00; (0.89; 1.12)
Being worried
A little	9.59	Ref.	Ref.	8.4	Ref.	Ref.	10.8	Ref.	Ref.
A lot	11.55	1.23	1.10; (1.00; 1.22)	10.3	1.25	1.10; (0.96; 1.27)	12.8	1.21	1.11; (0.97; 1.26)
Lack of social support
No	9.98	Ref.	Ref.	8.8	Ref.	Ref.	11.2	Ref.	Ref.
Yes	8.60	0.85	0.93; (0.82; 1.04)	7.6	0.85	0.92; (0.78; 1.09)	9.6	0.85	0.94; (0.80; 1.10)
Socioeconomic status
High	8.41	Ref.	Ref.	7.4	Ref.	Ref.	9.5	Ref.	Ref.
Intermediate	12.92	1.61	1.31; (1.21; 1.42)	11.6	1.59	1.28; (1.14; 1.44)	14.3	1.59	1.33; (1.20; 1.48)
Low	15.65	2.02	1.49; (1.25; 1.80)	12.8	1.84	1.29; (0.98; 1.69)	18.5	2.16	1.66; (1.32; 2.09)

1Adjusted for age, parity, prepregnancy BMI, smoking during pregnancy and socioeconomic status.