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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Is the association between mothers’ autistic traits and childhood autistic traits moderated by maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index?

Characteristics

Generation R cohort

n = 4659

CUSP cohort

n = 179

Maternal

  

 Age (years)

31.5 (4.7)

32.6 (4.5)

 Autistic traits score—AQ short

50.8 (8.8)

53.3 (11.6)

 Body mass index (BMI),

pre-pregnancy

23.1 (3.9)

21.7 (3.9)

Paternal

  

 Age (years)

33.9 (5.4)

35.4 (6.2)

Child

  

 Gestational age (weeks)

39.8 (1.8)

39.5 (1.5)

 Sex at birth (%)

  

  Male

49.4

48.6

  Female

50.6

51.4

 Birth weight (grams)

3427.6 (580.4)

3402.8 (509.8)

 Apgar score at 5 min

9.6 (0.8)

9.7 (0.7)

 Autistic traits scorea

4.9 (3.9)

30.1 (8.2)

  1. Data represent means (SDs) unless specified otherwise
  2. aAutistic traits were measured by SRS in The Generation R, by Q-CHAT in CUSP cohort
  3. *p < .05 for comparison between The Generation R versus CUSP cohort