Journal
BMC PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14881-4
Keywords
Smoking during pregnancy; Perinatal outcomes; Preterm birth; Birthweight; Intrauterine growth restriction
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- research fund in obstetrics and gynecology of the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland
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The study of 20843 pregnant women showed that smoking during pregnancy is associated with various adverse perinatal outcomes, with a dose dependent effect.
Background: It has been shown that active exposure to tobacco is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes including, but not limited to, intrauterine fetal death, reduced fetal weight, and higher risk of preterm birth. We want to investigate these effects in a high-income country.Methods: This cross-sectional study examined 20,843 pregnant women who delivered over 10 years at the Maternity Hospital of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The objective was to evaluate a dose-response relationship between daily cigarette use during pregnancy and possible adverse perinatal outcomes. The social and clinical characteristics as well as obstetric and neonatal outcomes were compared between the smoking and the non-smoking groups. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and trend analyses (p(trend)) were calculated.Results: Nineteen thousand five hundred fifty-four pregnant women met the inclusion criteria and 2,714 (13.9%) of them were smokers. Even after adjusting for confounding factors, smoking during pregnancy was associated with preterm birth, birthweight < 2500 g, intrauterine growth restriction, neonatal respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases, transfer to the neonatal intensive care unit, and neonatal intensive care unit admissions > 7 days. Intrauterine death and neonatal infection were associated with heavy smoking (>= 20 cigarettes/day). Smoking appeared to be a protective factor for pre-eclampsia and umbilical cord arterial pH below 7.1. A significant trend (ptrend < 0.05) was identified for preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction, birthweight < 2500 g, umbilical cord arterial pH below 7.1, transfers to our neonatal intensive care unit, and neonatal intensive care unit admissions more than 7 days.Conclusion: Cigarette smoking is associated with several adverse perinatal outcomes of pregnancy with a dose dependent effect.
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