Saturday, June 19, 2010

Smoking-neurodevelopmental outcome

Smoking in pregnancy: a risk factor for adverse neurodevelopmental
outcome in preterm infants?
U Kiechl-Kohlendorfer (ursula.kohlendorfer@i-med.ac.at), E Ralser, U Pupp Peglow, G Reiter, E Griesmaier, R Trawöger
Acta Paediatrica/Acta Paediatrica 2010 99, pp. 1016–1019
prospectively enrolled 181 infants
born alive between 23 and 32 weeks of gestation; 142 infants (78.5%) completed the follow-up visit. Smoking in pregnancy, small for gestational age and chronic lung
disease maintained significance in a multivariable analysis.

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