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- Title
Paternal Smoking and Birthweight in Shanghai.
- Authors
Jun Zhang; Ratcliffe, Jennifer M.
- Abstract
Objectives. Although maternal active smoking has been established to be associated with fetal growth retardation, evidence of an effect of environmental tobacco smoke exposure on birthweigth is still limited and inconclusive. This study addressed the relationship between prenatal environmental tobacco smoke exposure and birthweigth and fetal growth retardation in Shanghai, China. Methods. Data on 1785 full-term live-born normal infants of nonsmoking mothers were used from the Shanghai Birth Defects and Perinatal Death Monitoring conducted between October 1986 and September 1987. Environmental tobacco smoke exposure was defined as exposure to paternal smoking. Results. Infants with environmental tobacco smoking exposure were, on average, 30g lower in birth weight than nonexposed infants, after adjustment for gestational age, parity, maternal age, and occupation. Conclusion. Consistent with previous research, this study suggest that environmental tobacco smoking exposure may have a modestly adverse effect on birthweight.
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1993, Vol 83, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.83.2.207