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Cross‐sectional growth of children whose mothers abused amphetamines during pregnancy
Author(s) -
Eriksson M,
Jonsson B,
Steneroth G,
Zetterström R
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1994.tb13091.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , head circumference , cohabitation , birth weight , fetal growth , demography , cross sectional study , obstetrics , pediatrics , fetus , genetics , pathology , sociology , political science , law , biology
Eriksson M, Jonsson B, Steneroth G, Zetterström R. Cross‐sectional growth of children whose mothers abused amphetamines during pregnancy. Acta Pediatr 1994;83:612–17. Stockholm. ISSN 0803–5253 Growth of 65 children whose mothers were addicted to amphetamines during pregnancy was followed prospectively from birth to eight years of age. At birth, one and four years of age, mean weight, height and head circumference were below the mean for Swedish children and significantly so in girls. A statistically significant correlation was found in both sexes between impaired growth and social factors such as stress index, increasing number of siblings, length of maternal cohabitation and abuse in maternal relatives.