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Smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy: an epidemiological study in Tasmania
Author(s) -
Kwok P.,
Correy J. F.,
Newman N. M.,
Curran J. T.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1983.tb99396.x
Subject(s) - pregnancy , alcohol consumption , medicine , incidence (geometry) , epidemiology , alcohol , environmental health , ingestion , consumption (sociology) , demography , obstetrics , social science , biochemistry , genetics , sociology , biology , chemistry , physics , optics
Smoking and alcohol ingestion were analysed in 5100 women confined in Tasmania in 1981. This represented 70% of the total number of confinements. The incidence of smoking throughout pregnancy was 33.6%, and 2.7% of the women studied smoked at some time during pregnancy. Alcohol consumption in pregnancy was recorded for 55.9% of patients. However, 99% were only occasional drinkers. There was a statistically higher incidence in smoking habits in the age group 20 years and under, the unmarriedand the lower socio‐economic classes, whereas the reverse was true for alcohol consumption. The analysis provides a basis for the groups toward which programmes should be directed.