Psychological stress and coeliac disease in childhood: a cohort study

BMC Gastroenterology

Table 1 Psychological stress at age 1 and risk of future coeliac disease (CD).

	*Crude odds ratios (OR) for coeliac disease* *diagnosed after age 1*
	n*	nwith CD	OR	95% CI	P
Serious life event at age 1 §					0.72
No serious life event	10094	50	reference
A Serious life event	447	1	0.45	0.01-2.65
Parenting stress at age 1§					0.73
Non-exposed	9989	47	reference
Exposed	525	1	0.40	0.01-2.38

*Number of parents answering the questionnaire questions referring to serious life event and parenting stress, respectively. Due to internal attrition the numbers of reference individuals vary between the different analyses.
§For definition of serious life event and parenting stress, see text.
CI = Confidence interval according to exact test. P-values were calculated using Fisher's exact test.

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