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Maternal smoking tied to weight problems in kids. (Large German Study).
Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy were 1.43 times more likely to be overweight and 2.06 times more likely to be obese, compared with their counterparts whose mothers didn't smoke during pregnancy investigators reported.
The finding supports previous studies that link maternal smoking to a child's increased risk for being overweight or being obese, said Dr. Rudiger von Kries of the University of Munich (Germany) and his associates.
Mothers of 6,483 German children aged 5-7 years completed a self-administered questionnaire on various societal and demographic factors possibly related to unhealthy weight in children, the investigators said (Am. J. Epidemiol. 156[10]:954-61, 2002).
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