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Figure D18: Hospitalizations for infectious disease (PFOA and PFOS)

Infectious disease outcomes analyzed as poisson regression  
  • Fei 2010 infectious disease relating to hospitalization in children 0-10 years of age

Not on this graph Infectious disease outcomes analyzed as odds ratio 
(PFOA and PFOS): 
  • Looker (2014) - cohort tested association between PFOA or PFOS and antibody response to influenza Type B, A/H1N1, A/H3N2 vaccination in adults
  • Granum (2013) - cohort tested association between maternal PFOA or PFOS associated with colds, otitis media (not presented), gasteroenteritis in children. note anlyses by number of episodes cold or gasterenterities (presented as beta) not included 
  • Okada 2012 otitis media in children up to age 18 months