Open AccessMaternal smoking during pregnancy and rapid weight gain from birth to early infancy
Author(s) -
Tomosa Mine,
Tsunehiko Tanaka,
Tadashi Nakasone,
Toru Itokazu,
Zentaro Yamagata,
Yuji Nishiwaki
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.679
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1349-9092
pISSN - 0917-5040
DOI - 10.1016/j.je.2016.10.005
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , poisson regression , confidence interval , early pregnancy factor , birth weight , weight gain , obstetrics , demography , pediatrics , gestation , body weight , environmental health , population , genetics , sociology , biology
Although several studies have focused on the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and rapid weight gain (RWG) during infancy, the dose-response relationship has not yet been confirmed, and very few studies have included Asian populations. Using a record-linkage method, we examined the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and RWG in infants at around 4 months of age to clarify the dose-response relationship.