Journal article
Sex-specific differences in birth weight due to maternal smoking during pregnancy
Abstract
IntroductionWe investigated the sex-specific risk of maternal smoking during pregnancy on the birth weight and the proportion of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) newborns in 888,632 (49.9%) of 1,815,318 singleton births (ca. 80% of all singleton births in Germany from 1995 to 1997) in whom data on maternal cigarette consumption were available.Results and discussionNewborns below the 10th percentile for weight and duration of pregnancy were …
Authors
Voigt M; Hermanussen M; Wittwer-Backofen U; Fusch C; Hesse V
Journal
European Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 165, No. 11, pp. 757–761
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
November 2006
DOI
10.1007/s00431-006-0169-1
ISSN
0340-6199