ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2003
Maternal consumption of coffee during pregnancy and stillbirth and infant death in first year of life: prospective study.
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- Relationship between maternal caffeine and coffee intake and pregnancy loss: A grading of recommendations assessment, development, and evaluation-assessed, dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Maternal caffeine intake during pregnancy and risk of pregnancy loss: a categorical and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies.Public health nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- Effects of restricted caffeine intake by mother on fetal, neonatal and pregnancy outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Preconception care: caffeine, smoking, alcohol, drugs and other environmental chemical/radiation exposure.Reproductive health · 2014Pooled it
- Maternal Caffeine Consumption and Pregnancy Outcomes.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- The Fetal Effect of Maternal Caffeine Consumption During Pregnancy-A Review.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Preconception-Health-Related Attitudes of Bulgarian Women of Reproductive Age.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Maternal caffeine consumption and pregnancy outcomes: a narrative review with implications for advice to mothers and mothers-to-be.BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2021Review
- Caffeine, alcohol, khat, and tobacco use during pregnancy in Butajira, South Central Ethiopia.PloS one · 2020Article
- Caffeine exposure during pregnancy, small for gestational age birth and neonatal outcome - results from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Article
- Use of lipid-lowering medicinal herbs during pregnancy: A systematic review on safety and dosage.ARYA atherosclerosis · 2017Review
- Association between coffee or caffeine consumption and fecundity and fertility: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.Clinical epidemiology · 2017Review
- Predictors for an unsuccessful INtubation-SURfactant-Extubation procedure: a cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2014Article
- Effect of long-term caffeine administration to mice on in vitro fertilization and embryo development using oocytes.Reproductive medicine and biology · 2013Article
- The Emerging Health Benefits of Coffee with an Emphasis on Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.European endocrinology · 2013Review
- Lifestyle factors and reproductive health: taking control of your fertility.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2013Review
- Consumption habits of pregnant women and implications for developmental biology: a survey of predominantly Hispanic women in California.Nutrition journal · 2013Article
- Coffee: advice for our vice?Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2013Article
- Rationale and design of the PRegnancy and Infant DEvelopment (PRIDE) Study.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo study the association between coffee consumption during pregnancy and the risk of stillbirth and infant death in the first year of life.
designProspective follow up study.
settingAarhus University Hospital, Denmark, 1989-96.
participants18 478 singleton pregnancies in women with valid information about coffee consumption during pregnancy.
main outcome measuresStillbirth (delivery of a dead fetus at > or =28 weeks' gestation) and infant death (death of a liveborn infant during the first year of life).
resultsPregnant women who drank eight or more cups of coffee per day during pregnancy had an increased risk of stillbirth compared with women who did not drink coffee (odds ratio=3.0, 95% confidence interval 1.5 to 5.9). After adjustment for smoking habits and alcohol intake during pregnancy, the relative risk of stillbirth decreased slightly. Adjustment for parity, maternal age, marital status, years of education, occupational status, and body mass index did not substantially change the estimates of association. There was no significant association between coffee consumption and death in the first year of life after adjustment for smoking habits during pregnancy.
conclusionDrinking coffee during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of stillbirth but not with infant death.
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