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Cigarette Smoking, Alcohol Consumption and Fetal Outcome in Tasmania 1981–82
Author(s) -
Lumley Judith,
Correy J. F.,
Newman N. M.,
Curran J. T.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1985.tb00599.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , birth weight , pregnancy , demography , alcohol consumption , parity (physics) , alcohol , low birth weight , incidence (geometry) , cigarette smoking , environmental health , obstetrics , population , biochemistry , physics , particle physics , sociology , biology , genetics , chemistry , optics
Summary: Analysis of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption patterns recorded in pregnancy could not detect a harmful effect of alcohol at levels below 2 glasses a day. Total abstainers fared very slightly worse than those who drank occasionally. Smoking was associated with lower birth‐weight and a worse fetal outcome independent of socioeconomic status, parity, maternal age or alcohol consumption. There was evidence of an interaction between smoking and adverse social and parity factors in low birth‐weight.