Table 3 Crude and Adjusted Odds Ratios for Any Birth Defect – Role of PGW-Related Exposures
From: Reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes among French gulf war veterans
Cases (n = 131) | Controls (n = 262) | Univariate analysis | Adjusted analysis * | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | OR | 95% CI | p | OR | 95% CI | p | |
Mission in GW | 0.17 | 0.31 | ||||||||
Before Jan. 1991 | 12 | 9.2 | 35 | 13.4 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
After Feb. 1991 | 6 | 4.6 | 20 | 7.6 | 0.85 | 0.28–2.58 | 0.85 | 0.27–2.66 | ||
Only Jan-Feb. 1991 | 17 | 13.0 | 19 | 7.3 | 2.33 | 0.97–5.59 | 1.88 | 0.75–4.75 | ||
Other date of mission | 96 | 73.3 | 188 | 71.7 | 1.43 | 0.70–2.91 | 1.61 | 0.76–3.40 | ||
Location of mission | 0.47 | 0.90 | ||||||||
Neither Iraq nor Kuwait | 72 | 55.0 | 122 | 46.6 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Kuwait only | 10 | 7.6 | 23 | 8.8 | 0.73 | 0.32–1.66 | 0.74 | 0.30–1.78 | ||
Iraq only | 41 | 31.3 | 96 | 36.6 | 0.72 | 0.44–1.17 | 0.97 | 0.53–1.78 | ||
Iraq and Kuwait | 8 | 6.1 | 21 | 8.0 | 0.66 | 0.28–1.58 | 0.84 | 0.33–2.10 | ||
Smoke of oil well fires | ||||||||||
No | 90 | 68.7 | 176 | 67.2 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Yes | 41 | 31.3 | 86 | 32.8 | 0.93 | 0.59–1.47 | 0.76 | 0.90 | 0.56–1.43 | 0.65 |
Sandstorm | ||||||||||
No | 25 | 19.1 | 49 | 18.7 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Yes | 106 | 80.9 | 213 | 81.3 | 0.98 | 0.58–1.65 | 0.93 | 1.15 | 0.57–2.31 | 0.69 |
Chemical alarms | ||||||||||
No | 46 | 32.1 | 66 | 25.2 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Yes | 85 | 64.9 | 196 | 74.8 | 0.63 | 0.40–0.99 | 0.05 | 0.61 | 0.36–1.06 | 0.08 |
Pesticides | ||||||||||
No | 86 | 65.7 | 178 | 67.9 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Yes | 45 | 34.4 | 84 | 32.1 | 1.11 | 0.70–1.78 | 0.64 | 1.00 | 0.61–1.63 | 0.99 |