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Table 2 Effect sizes for significant variables and pending risk factors

From: Association of environmental markers with childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus revealed by a long questionnaire on early life exposures and lifestyle in a case–control study

  

Matched analysis

Propensity analysis

Label

Levels

Missing

Effect size

(CI)

Missing

Effect size

(CI)

Clubb

2

1 %/2 %

0.49

(0.35;0.68)

2 %/2 %

0.54

(0.42 0.68)

Social week-end

2

1 %/1 %

0.51

(0.36;0.73)

1 %/1 %

0.44

(0.33;0.58)

Friend’s pool

2

1 %/0 %

0.62

(0.47;0.82)

1 %/0 %

0.5

(0.41;0.62)

Ski

2

1 %/2 %

0.49

(0.36;0.67)

2 %/2 %

0.58

(0.47;0.71)

Beacha

4

3 %/2 %

0.27

(0.14;0.51)

3 %/2 %

0.32

(0.20;0.49)

Diarrhea

2

5 %/5 %

0.56

(0.43;0.74)

7 %/5 %

0.62

(0.51;0.76)

Cocoa spread

5

1 %/1 %

0.33

(0.19;0.57)

0 %/1 %

0.44

(0.29;0.66)

Sugar baby

2

2 %/3 %

0.61

(0.47;0.79)

3 %/2 %

0.59

(0.48;0.71)

Dental hygieneb

3

0 %/0 %

0.39

(0.25;0.6)

1 %/0 %

0.45

(0.33;0.61)

Dentista

2

3 %/1 %

0.44

(0.3;0.64)

3 %/3 %

0.37

(0.28;0.49)

Dentist (freq.)a

4

2 %/3 %

0.37

(0.24;0.58)

2 %/1 %

0.34

(0.25;0.47)

Stings

2

3 %/3 %

0.58

(0.43;0.79)

3 %/3 %

0.6

(0.48;0.74)

Pet’s death

2

14 %/12 %

0.51

(0.35;0.73)

13 %/11 %

0.6

(0.47;0.76)

Farm vegetables

2

1 %/1 %

0.57

(0.42;0.77)

1 %/1 %

0.57

(0.45;0.71)

Exclusive breastfeeding

2

2 %/2 %

0.88

(0.68;1.15)

2 %/2 %

0.77

(0.63;0.94)

Respiratory infections

2

5 %/4 %

0.87

(0.68;1.12)

6 %/4 %

0.89

(0.73;1.1)

  1. Effect sizes are odd ratios for binary variables and correspond to odd ratio between extreme responses for ordinal variables. Percentage of missing data are split between patients and controls. Factors from the literature are at the end of the table
  2. avariables affected by further age-related exclusion
  3. bvariables affected by the further exclusion for the propensity analysis only
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