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Smoking in pregnancy: effects on mother and fetus
Author(s) -
KELLY J.,
MATHEWS K. A.,
O'CONOR M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1984.tb05892.x
Subject(s) - fetus , nicotine , pregnancy , fetal heart rate , medicine , heart rate , obstetrics , cigarette smoke , tobacco smoke , blood pressure , physiology , biology , environmental health , genetics
summary The maternal and fetal effects of smoking tobacco or non‐tobacco cigarettes were studied in 75 pregnant patients and compared with a matched control group of 22 pregnant patients who did not smoke. The increase in maternal heart rate, maternal mean arterial pressure and fetal heart rate, and decrease in fetal heart rate ‘baseline variability’ and in fetal movements, were shown to be due primarily to the nicotine content of the cigarette.