Table 1 Summary of participants' information, lipid profile as well as air pollution and traffic indicators data
From: The association of in-utero exposure to air pollution and atherogenic index of plasma in newborns
Variables | Description |
|---|---|
Maternal characteristics | |
 Age (year); median (first Q -third Q) | 26 (23—30) |
 Pre-pregnancy BMI (kg/m2); median (first Q -third Q) | 22.1 (20.2 – 26.5) |
Education; N (%) | |
 Elementary/illiterate | 87 (29.0%) |
 High-school | 182 (60.6%) |
 University | 31 (10.3%) |
Self-reported tobacco exposure at home; N (%) | |
 Yes | 56 (18.7%) |
 No | 244 (81.3%) |
Income; N (%) | |
 Low | 169 (56.4%) |
 Middle | 99 (33.0%) |
 High | 32 (10.6%) |
 Census tract illiteracy; N (%) | 27.5 (13.5–33.0) |
 Census tract unemployment; N (%) | 7.1 (3.9–8.9) |
Newborn characteristics; N (%) | |
Gender | |
 Male | 141 (47%) |
 Female | 159 (53%) |
BMI (kg/m2); median (first Q -third Q) | 12.1 (11.5 – 13.4) |
Particulate matter (μg/m3); median (first Q -third Q) | |
 PM1 | 36.3 (29.5 – 65.3) |
 PM2.5 | 41.6 (35.1 – 74.1) |
 PM10 | 50.5 (40.3 – 84.5) |
Traffic indicators (m); median (first Q -third Q) | |
 Street length in a 100 m buffer | 745(623 – 1231) |
 Street length in a 300 m buffer | 8134 (5987 – 9271) |
 Street length in a 500 m buffer | 21,067 (13,576 – 24,522) |
 Distance to major roads | 196 (89 – 478) |
TAG (mg/dL); median (first Q -third Q) | 31.3 (24.5 – 47.7) |
HDL-C (mg/dL); median (first Q -third Q) | 28.9 (23.1 – 37.5) |
LDL-C (mg/dL); median (first Q -third Q) | 23.7 (13.4 – 33.5) |
TC (mg/dL); median (first Q -third Q) | 66.4 (49.5 – 74.4) |
AIP; median (first Q -third Q) | -0.34 (-0.50 – -0.16) |