ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2008
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and children's cognitive and physical development: a causal risk factor?
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Prenatal Risk Factors for Adverse Developmental Outcome in Preterm Infants-Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Differences in maternal smoking across successive pregnancies - dose-dependent relation to BMI z-score in the offspring: an individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2018Pooled it
- Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring overweight: is there a dose-response relationship? An individual patient data meta-analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018Pooled it
- Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring conduct problems: evidence from 3 independent genetically sensitive research designs.JAMA psychiatry · 2013Pooled it
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- Parental factors predicting social deviance and psychological outcomes in offspring: Evidence from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2024Article
- Prenatal tobacco exposure associations with physical health and neurodevelopment in the ABCD cohort.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2023Article
- Prenatal smoking, alcohol and caffeine exposure and maternal-reported attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in childhood: triangulation of evidence using negative control and polygenic risk score analyses.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- Maternal nicotine metabolism moderates the impact of maternal cigarette smoking on infant birth weight: A Collaborative Perinatal Project investigation.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Pre-Birth Household Challenges Predict Future Child's School Readiness and Academic Achievement.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Polygenic risk for autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and neuroticism is associated with the experience of childhood abuse.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- Family-Based Designs that Disentangle Inherited Factors from Pre- and Postnatal Environmental Exposures: In Vitro Fertilization, Discordant Sibling Pairs, Maternal versus Paternal Comparisons, and Adoption Designs.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2021Review
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- Using a cross-cohort comparison design to test the role of maternal smoking in pregnancy in child mental health and learning: evidence from two UK cohorts born four decades apart.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- A Follow-Up Study of Cognitive Development in Low Risk Preterm Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Invited Commentary: The Disillusionment of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Epidemiology.American journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Association between tobacco and/or alcohol consumption during pregnancy and infant development: BRISA Cohort.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2020Article
- Familial confounding of the association between maternal smoking in pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder in offspring.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020Article
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Abstract
There remains considerable debate regarding the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on children's growth and development. Evidence that exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with numerous adverse outcomes is contradicted by research suggesting that these associations are spurious. The authors investigated the relation between maternal smoking during pregnancy and 14 developmental outcomes of children from birth through age 7 years, using data from the Collaborative Perinatal Project (1959-1974; n = 52,919). In addition to adjusting for potential confounders measured contemporaneously with maternal smoking, the authors fitted conditional fixed-effects models among siblings that controlled for unmeasured confounders. Results from the conditional analyses indicated a birth weight difference of -85.63 g associated with smoking of >or=20 cigarettes daily during pregnancy (95% confidence interval: -131.91, -39.34) and 2.73 times' higher odds of being overweight at age 7 years (95% confidence interval: 1.30, 5.71). However, the associations between maternal smoking and 12 other outcomes studied (including Apgar score, intelligence, academic achievement, conduct problems, and asthma) were entirely eliminated after adjustment for measured and unmeasured confounders. The authors conclude that the hypothesized effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on these outcomes either are not present or are not distinguishable from a broader range of familial factors associated with maternal smoking.
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