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Table 2 shows characteristics for the 542 mother infant pairs with the 2-week exam.

Data on covariates came primarily from a questionnaire administered at the 2-week exam.

The general pattern of these findings was unchanged when a narrower window of time (10 17 days after birth) was used for the 2-week exam.

The use of a broad time window for the 2-week exam may have introduced some random error into our estimates.

We also assessed whether the infant's ability to recover from the birth was associated with organochlorine exposure by comparing performance for the individual items on the birth exam with the 2-week exam.

For this analysis we focused on whether an infant scoring in the lowest two-thirds of the item on the birth exam advanced to a better score on the 2-week exam (i.e., lowest third advanced to middle or highest third, or middle third advanced to highest third).

The main analyses focused on NBAS outcomes collected at the 2-week exam, which may be a better indicator of infant behavior because the infant will have likely recovered from the demands associated with the birth experience (Lester 1983; Lester et al. 1985).

The Michigan study also found associations between PCBs and impulsivity among 11-year-olds who had not been breast-fed (Jacobson and Jacobson 2003) We examined whether organochlorines impaired the infant's ability to recover from the birth experience by assessing changes in performance between the birth exam and the 2-week exam.

The first assessment took place between the first and third days of life (referred to as the birth exam), and the second was administered between 5 and 22 days, 80% of which fell between 8 and 20 days, (referred to as the 2-week exam).

We also dichotomized 3 outcome measures: a) irritability [high (score 7 9) vs. normal (score 4 6); only 13 subjects scored < 4]; b) missing orientation data (missing data on all orientation items vs. data on one or more item); and c) failure to recover from the birth experience (failure to advance to a better score from the birth exam to the 2-week exam).

Subjects had to have data for both the birth and the 2-week exams to be included in the failure-to-recover analysis.