Parental smoking and childhood obesity: higher effect estimates for maternal smoking in pregnancy compared with paternal smoking--a meta-analysis | Zendy

Christina Riedel | Zendy; Katharina Schönberger | Zendy; Seungmi Yang | Zendy; Gibby Koshy | Zendy; Yangjia Chen | Zendy; Bamini Gopinath | Zendy; S. Ziebarth | Zendy; Rüdiger von Kries | Zendy

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Parental smoking and childhood obesity: higher effect estimates for maternal smoking in pregnancy compared with paternal smoking--a meta-analysis

Author(s) -

Christina Riedel,

Katharina Schönberger,

Seungmi Yang,

Gibby Koshy,

Yangjia Chen,

Bamini Gopinath,

S. Ziebarth,

Rüdiger von Kries

Publication year - 2014

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/dyu150

Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , pregnancy , confidence interval , odds ratio , obesity , meta analysis , passive smoking , childhood obesity , in utero , obstetrics , demography , environmental health , fetus , genetics , sociology , biology

Some studies reported similar effect estimates for the impact of maternal smoking in pregnancy and paternal smoking on childhood obesity, whereas others suggested higher effects for maternal smoking. We performed a meta-analysis to compare the effect of in utero exposure to maternal smoking and that of paternal or household smoking exposure in utero or after birth with mutual adjustment.

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