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Yet another reason not to smoke in pregnancy.(Obstetrics)
DALLAS -- Smoking during pregnancy is associated with overweight in the offspring, Dr. Nicholas Stettler reported at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association.
His retrospective analysis of prospectively collected prenatal and postnatal data on 20,284 women who participated in the Collaborative Perinatal Project showed that after a host of potential confounding variables were controlled for, white women who smoked in pregnancy were 33% more likely than those who didn't to give birth to a child whose body mass index was at or above the 95th percentile at age 7 years. Black smokers were 39% more likely than nonsmokers during pregnancy to have an overweight 7-year-old, said Dr. Stettler of Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
"In utero exposure to smoking may result in metabolic programming that leads to the development of obesity," he said. "Smoking prevention and ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Yet another reason not to smoke in pregnancy.(Obstetrics)