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If you choose to follow any links to the abstract and/or complete text of the item listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Jan Dejmek, Ivo Solansky, Katerina Podrazilova, and Radim J. Sram The Exposure of Nonsmoking and Smoking Mothers to Environmental Tobacco Smoke during Different Gestational Phases and Fetal Growth. (... a study of the effects of mothers' exposure to environmental tobacco smoke [ETS or it is also often referred to as passive smoking] on the birth weight and intrauterine growth retardation [IUGR] of their babies. The study was conducted in the Czech Republic and the sample consisted of single live births [a total of 6,866] that occurred in two districts of the Czech Republic between April 1994 and March 1999. The authors obtained data about parental characteristics and maternal active smoking [AS] and passive smoking at delivery [of the baby] via maternal questionnaires and medical records. Three categories of smoking habits [nonsmokers and those who smoked 1-10 or >10 cigarettes per day] were used and ETS exposure was defined as 5 cigarettes or more per day smoked by others in the mother's presence. Based on the information obtained from the mothers and the babies and after controlling for many factors [such as the mother's age, weight, marital status, the infant's sex, the mother's level of alcohol consumption, etc.] that could potentially adversely affect the results of the study, the authors concluded that ETS exposure significantly reduced the birth weight [BW] of infants delivered by nonsmoking women. In addition, the authors found that ETS exposure increases the adverse effects of active smoking by the mother. That is, ETS contributed to birth weight reduction in babies of active smoking mothers. The authors also found that exposure to ETS increased the risk of low birth weight infants [birth weight less than 2,500 grams] not only for nonsmoking but also for active smoking mothers, and that exposure to ETS increased the risk of intrauterine growth retardation in the babies of active smoking mothers. Overall, the authors concluded that the impact of active and/or passive smoking on fetal growth increases with the duration of exposure during pregnancy. Other keywords and phrases -- baby, births, child, children, maternal -- from the text of the abstract) Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 110, Number 6 (June 2002): 601-606. **The complete text of the abstract is currently available through the Web site of Environmental Health Perspectives** How to find the above journal, magazine, or other publication? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions? Please let me know. |
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