Open AccessMaternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Head Growth in Comparison to Height and Weight Growth Up to 6 Years of Age: A Longitudinal Study
Author(s) -
M. J. Karvonen,
Antti Saari,
Reijo Sund,
Ulla Sankilampi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s327766
Subject(s) - medicine , offspring , pregnancy , birth weight , confounding , head circumference , pediatrics , weight gain , longitudinal study , obstetrics , body weight , genetics , pathology , biology
Maternal smoking during pregnancy causes fetal growth retardation. Thereafter, it has been associated with excessive childhood weight gain and decreased linear growth in the offspring. However, it is not known whether head circumference (HC), the surrogate of brain size in childhood, is altered after intrauterine tobacco exposure. We assessed the association of maternal smoking during pregnancy with offspring HC growth up to age 6 years in comparison with length/height growth and weight gain.