Risk of Childhood Asthma in Relation to the Timing of Early Child Care Exposures

Model-predicted probability of asthma (persistent or late-onset) by number of other children in the child-care environment as a toddler. Predicted probability as a function of mean number of other children in the child care setting as a toddler, with the final logistic model (Table IV), adjusting for all of the listed covariates. This figure presents specific probabilities for a Caucasian male whose mother did not report having asthma in a “clean” household who had 4 and 5 respiratory infections as an infant and toddler, respectively, who was not preterm, does not have eczema, and was breastfed, who was in primary care 32 hours per week in the first 3 years, who was around 2 other children in the primary care setting as an infant, with a mother with 14 years of education and is 29 years old and did not smoke during pregnancy, from an urban household with an income-to-needs ratio of 3 (all values are medians from the dataset). This overall relationship would remain no matter what values were chosen for the other covariates.