Fig 1.
Infants included and excluded from MCS and SAIL cohorts.
Table 1.
Definitions of exposure—mode of birth.
Table 2.
Definitions of outcomes–lower and upper respiratory tract infections.
Table 3.
Explanatory variables available for the analyses.
Table 4.
Distribution of mode of birth in MCS and SAIL cohorts.
Table 5.
Characteristics of SAIL and MCS cohorts by mode of birth.
Table 6.
Association between mode of birth and hospital admission for LRTIs and URTIs in the MCS and SAIL cohorts.
Fig 2.
Hazard ratios of admission for LRTI and URTI, fully adjusted and unadjusted for gestational age at birth.