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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of 275 Gen3G mother–child pairs included in this study

From: Detecting cord blood cell type-specific epigenetic associations with gestational diabetes mellitus and early childhood growth

 

Mean (SD)/N (%)

Mother

 Age (year)

28.5 (4.2)

 Height (cm)

164.8 (6.4)

 Weight (kg)

69.3 (15.6)

 Body mass index (BMI; kg/m2)

25.5 (5.7)

Parity

 Being primiparous

132 (48.0)

 Gestational diabetes mellitus†

23 (8.4)

 Insulin therapy

9 (3.3)

 Dietary intervention

14 (5.1)

 Smoking (at 1st trimester)

 

 Currently smoking

21 (7.6)

Child

 Gestational age at birth (week)

39.5 (1.0)

 Male

150 (54.5)

 Birthweight (kg)

3.4 (0.4)

 Height (cm) at age 3*

96.9 (4.4)

 Weight (kg) at age 3

15.2 (1.9)

 BMI (kg/m2) at age 3*

16.2 (1.6)

Estimated cord blood cell type proportions (%)

 B-cell

9.5 (3.0)

 CD4+ T-cell

15.8 (5.3)

 CD8+ T-cell

12.6 (3.4)

 Granulocyte

39.9 (9.2)

 Monocyte

9.0 (2.6)

 Natural killer cell

2.0 (2.6)

 Nucleated red blood cell

11.2 (5.9)

  1. *Three (1.1%) children had missing data and were not included in DNAm-age 3 BMI z-score association tests
  2. †Demographic and clinical characteristics with respect to maternal gestational diabetes mellitus are presented in Additional file 1: Supplementary Tables S1 and S2