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| | Chapter 14 Pregnancy and fertility |
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| | Perinatal mortality was 270 per 1000 (27%) for children of smoking women in Dacca, |
| | Bangladesh. This was twice as high as for children of nonsmokers. |
| | Lancet, May 16, 1981, p. 1092 |
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| | Mothers who smoke have a significantly increased risk for episodes of uterine |
| | bleeding during pregnancy. After birth, infants of smokers also had more frequent |
| | (relative risk 2.76) and longer episodes of obstructive sleep apnea, or periods of not |
| | breathing during sleep. |
| | Pediatrics, May 1994, p. 788 |
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| | Exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy, even if only in the first trimester, is |
| | associated with long term and potentially irreversible reduction in lung function. |
| | American Journal of Epidemiology, June 1994, p. 1139 |
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| | Infant mortality increases from 15 per 1000 live births in white nonsmokers to 23 per |
| | 1000 for white women who smoke more than one pack of cigarettes per day. The |
| | comparable rates for black women are 26.0 for nonsmokers and 39.9 for the second |
| | group. The odds for a spontaneous abortion in one study were 46% higher for the first |
| | 10 cigarettes smoked per day and 61% greater for the first 20 cigarettes smoked per |
| | day compared with no cigarettes during pregnancy. Smoking also accounts for 21% |
| | to 39% of the incidence of low-birth-weight-babies. In terms of fertility, smokers have |
| | 3.4 times the risk of taking more than a year to conceive, and twice the risk of infertility |
| | (not pregnant 5 years after ceasing contraceptive use). |
| | Clinics in Chest Medicine, December 1991, p. 652 |
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