Open AccessMaternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring IQ
Author(s) -
Naomi Breslau
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyi163
Subject(s) - offspring , pregnancy , intelligence quotient , medicine , wechsler adult intelligence scale , wechsler intelligence scale for children , pediatrics , demography , cognition , psychiatry , genetics , sociology , biology
Maternal smoking in pregnancy lowers birthweight. It is unclear, however, whether smoking during pregnancy lowers offspring IQ, and, if it does, whether it is through the smoking effect on fetal growth.
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