Relationship between birth weight and domestic maternal passive smoking exposure

Autor:	M A A Wadi, S S Al-Sharbatti
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Pregnancy Passive smoking business.industry Birth weight Regression analysis Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Positive correlation medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Medicine business Inverse correlation Demography
Zdroj:	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 17:290-296
ISSN:	1687-1634 1020-3397
DOI:	10.26719/2011.17.4.290
Popis:	This study aimed to assess the relationship between birth weight and maternal exposure to passive smoking during pregnancy, and to investigate some other determinants of birth weight. A retrospective cohort study in Baghdad, Iraq was conducted during February to August 2004 on a random sample of 300 non-smoker housewife mothers, interviewed 24 hours after delivery: 150 were not exposed to passive smoking at home and 150 were exposed. The mean birth weight of exposed newborns was significantly lower than non-exposed newborns. In exposed newborns, a significant inverse relationship was noticed between birth weight and the number of cigarettes smoked by household members (r = -0.27). Multiple regression analysis showed that after controlling for all the variables studied, birth weight had a significant inverse correlation with the maternal exposure to passive smoking and a positive correlation with adequate antenatal care.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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