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Report: West Virginia has nation's highest birth rate to pregnant smokers.(Brief Article)
2002 MAR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than a quarter of West Virginia births in 1999 were to women who smoked while pregnant, the highest rate in the nation, according to a new study.
West Virginia's 26.1% rate was more than twice the national figure of 12.6%. Texas and Arizona shared the lowest rate at 7%, said the report, The Right Start for America's Newborns: A Decade of City and State Trends (1990-1999).
The report was a joint project of Child Trends and Kids Count, an initiative of The Annie E. Casey Foundation, and looked at birth certificates provided by the National Center for Health Statistics.
"Nationally we've been very successful...West Virginia has not been" successful in reducing smoking among pregnant women, said Kids Count coordinator Bill O'Hare.
Nationally, the percentage of births to mothers who smoked declined during the study period from 18.4% in 1990 to 12.6% in 1999.
During the same period, West Virginia's rate fell from 27.8% of 22,585 births in 1990 to 26.1% of 20,728 births in 1999.
The high pregnancy smoking rate mirrors West Virginia's overall smoking rate, said Keith Dalton, with the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health.
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