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ReviewPrenatal diagnosis2020

The impact of tobacco chemicals and nicotine on placental development.

Melissa A Suter, Kjersti M Aagaard

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In one paragraph

Review in Prenatal diagnosis, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Birth outcomes following intrauterine exposure to electronic nicotine delivery systems: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  13. The Developmental Origins of Asthma and COPD.Annual review of physiology · 2026
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  18. Machine learning-enhanced surface-enhanced spectroscopic detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the human placenta.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa A SuterBaylor College of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Houston, TX.
Kjersti M AagaardBaylor College of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Houston, TX.ORCID 0000-0002-2960-0371
Baylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Conserved Fetal Epigenomic Signatures in a Primate Model of Maternal ObesityR01DK089201 · NIDDK · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI AAGAARD, KJERSTI MARIE · 2012 to 2021
$5.1M
Source of the Placental MicrobiomeR01HD091731 · NICHD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI AAGAARD, KJERSTI MARIE · 2017 to 2021
$3.4M
Longitudinal Neural Imaging and Functional Resilience After Hurricane HarveyR21ES029462 · NIEHS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI AAGAARD, KJERSTI MARIE · 2018 to 2020
$1.2M
Changes in Placental Thyriod Hormone Transport Associated with Maternal ObesityR00HD075858 · NICHD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SUTER, MELISSA ANNE · 2016 to 2018
$732k
Changes in placental thyriod hormone transport associated with maternal obesityK99HD075858 · NICHD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SUTER, MELISSA ANNE · 2014 to 2015
$149k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite decades of messages warning about the dangers of tobacco use in pregnancy, 10% to 15% of pregnant women continue to smoke. Furthermore, an increased popularity of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) over the past decade in women of childbearing age raises parallel concerns regarding the effects of vaporized nicotine use in pregnancy. While research using animal models which mimic tobacco smoke and nicotine exposure in pregnancy have largely replicated findings in humans, few studies focus directly on the effects of these exposures on the placenta. Because the placenta is a fetal derived tissue, and nicotine and other components of tobacco smoke are either processed by or transported directly through the placenta, such studies help us understand the risks of these exposures on the developing fetus. In this review, we summarize research on the placenta and placental-derived cells examining either tobacco smoke or nicotine exposure, including both histologic and subcellular (ie, epigenetic and molecular) modifications. Collectively, these studies reveal that tobacco and nicotine exposure are accompanied by some common and several unique molecular and epigenomic placental modifications. Consideration of the nature and sequelae of these molecular mediators of risk may help to better inform the public and more effectively curtail modifiable behavior.

Indexed as

FemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMaleNicotinePlacentationPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsTobacco UseNicotine

Identifiers

PMID32010988
PMCPMC7396310
OpenAlexW3003430315

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