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Table 3 WOMEN: Beta weights for childhood measures of weight, length and head circumference in regression models predicting adult lie-scale scores

From: An association of adult personality with prenatal and early postnatal growth: the EPQ lie-scale

Exposure variable

N

Unadjusted b

Adjustedab

Fully adjusted – including previous growthbb

Fully adjusted - including IQcb

Fully adjusted - including adult sizedb

Imputed values (40 datasets), adjustedab

Birth weight (kg)

571

-0.19

-0.31

-

-0.24

-0.42

-0. 08

Weight 1 y (kg)

428

0.08

0.08

0.17

0.15

0.04

0.03

Weight 3 y (kg)

337

0.001

-0.03

0.003

0.02

-0.08

-0.02

Weight 6 y (kg)

292

0.03

0.02

0.19

0.05

0.04

0.07

Birth length (cm)

569

0.02

-0.03

-

-0.02

0.005

0.04

Length 1 y (cm)

425

-0.01

-0.009

-0.0007

0.007

0.03

-0.008

Length 3 y (cm)

342

-0.01

-0.03

-0.04

-0.02

-0.03

-0.02

Length 6 y (cm)

300

-0.01

-0.02

0.03

0.002

-0.01

-0.003

Head circumference birth (cm)

523

0.05

0.07

-

0.09

0.09

0.02

Head circumference 1 y (cm)

427

-0.02

-0.005

0.09

0.05

0.07

0.03

Head circumference 3 y (cm)

340

-0.17

-0.11

0.07

-0.05

-0.22

-0.07

Head circumference 6 y (cm)

299

-0.004

0.04

0.21

0.09

0.06

0.06

  1. a: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, and age of EPQ measurement.
  2. b: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and previous growth (i.e. birth weight and weight at 1 year in analyses of weight at 3 years).
  3. c: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and adult intelligence.
  4. d: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and adult size (i.e. adult weight in analyses of weight at 0, 1, 3 and 6 years etc.).
  5. *P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01; ***P ≤ 0.001.