Background Smoking during pregnancy has been linked to numerous adverse health
consequences for both the developing fetus and mother. We estimated the prevalence of …

Background Tobacco smoking remains one of the few preventable factors associated with
complications in pregnancy, and has serious long‐term implications for women and babies …

Introduction: Many women continue tobacco use during pregnancy despite known adverse
consequences on neonatal growth and development. Testing meconium, the first neonatal …

Background Smoking during pregnancy causes obstetric and fetal complications, and
smoking cessation may have great benefits for the mother and the child. However, some …

OBJECTIVE: To assess relationships between marker concentrations of tobacco in
meconium and weekly self-reported maternal cigarette consumption, and prediction of …

Background The evaluation of infant meconium as a cumulative matrix of prenatal toxicant
exposure requires comparison to established biomarkers of prenatal exposure. Methods We …

Background Self-reported maternal active smoking has been associated with reduced
offspring birth length and shorter stature in early and late childhood. Objective To use …

Background The impact of secondhand smoke (SHS) on Southeast Asian children's health
has been assessed by a limited number of studies. The purpose of this study was to …

Smoking during pregnancy can have serious obstetric and fetal complications. Therefore, it
is essential to identify in utero exposure to tobacco, being meconium the matrix of choice for …

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is associated with high morbidity and mortality, mainly
in children. However, few studies focus on the brain development effects of ETS exposure …