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Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and infant ponderal index at birth in the Swedish Medical Birth Register, 1991-1992.

American journal of public health ·Vol. 90 ·No. 3 ·2000-03-00 ·Pages 420-3

Lindley AA, Gray RH, Herman AA, Becker S

Abstract

This study examined the effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on infant body proportion. The ponderal index, defined as birthweight divided by crown-heel length cubed, was examined in 207,607 infants from the Swedish Medical Birth Register for 1991 and 1992. Infant ponderal index was used as the outcome variable in an ordinary least squares continuous regression, which included early pregnancy smoking status, gestational age, and birthweight among the predictors. Ponderal index increased by 0.030 (+/- 0.0014) among infants of moderate smokers and by 0.040 (+/- 0.0017) among infants of heavy smokers, showing a dose response. Smoking differentially alters the trajectory of weight vs length growth in the fetus.

MeSH Terms
Adult Birth Weight Crown-Rump Length Female Gestational Age Humans Infant, Newborn Pregnancy Pregnancy Complications Registries Regression Analysis Smoking/adverse effects Sweden/epidemiology
Authors & Affiliations
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Lindley A A
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Center for Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., USA. [email protected]
Gray R H
Herman A A
Becker S
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Article Info
Journal
American journal of public health
Abbr.
Am J Public Health
ISSN
0090-0036
DOI
10.2105/ajph.90.3.420
Email
[email protected]
Published
2000-03-00
Pages
420-3
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
1254074
PMCID
PMC1446162
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.2105/ajph.90.3.420 PMC Full Text View journal details
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