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Smoking Raises Prematurity Risk Among Pregnant Women With Asthma.
NEW ORLEANS -- Women who had asthma and smoked during pregnancy were more likely to have premature babies or other adverse perinatal outcomes than were nonsmoking asthmatic women in a retrospective study.
"Obstetricians and [other] doctors should be aggressively counseling pregnant asthmatics to quit smoking and should be care fully monitoring these women," study investigator. Kristin Kloos, R.N., said in an interview. "Although common sense tells us that the combination of smoking and asthma in pregnancy is dangerous, when we began this study there were very little data on outcomes.
She and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minn., retrospectively studied the obstetrical records of 702 women who gave birth at the clinic during a 2-year period. The incidence of prematurity and birth abnormalities was twice as high in asthmatics who smoked compared with nonsmokers with asthma (24% vs. 11%), Ms. Kloos reported at the annual meeting of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Smoking Raises Prematurity Risk Among Pregnant Women With Asthma.