Hayfaa Wahabi|Rasmieh Alzeidan|Amel Fayed|Ahmed Mandil|Ghadeer Al?Shaikh|Samia Esmaeil
Effects of secondhand smoke on the birth weight of term infants and the demographic profile of Saudi exposed women
King Saud University|King Saud University|King Saud University|King Khalid University Hospital|King Saud University
maternal exposure tobacco smoke pregnancy associated detrimental effects mother fetus including impaired fetal growth low birth weight preterm delivery utero exposure tobacco implicated etiology many adults diseases including obesity diabetes hypertensionthe objectives study evaluate effects secondhand tobacco smoke shs exposure newborns anthropometric measurements compare demographic profile women exposed shs notthis retrospective cohort study investigating effects shs pregnancy newborns anthropometry women selfreported shs exposure compared exposed primary outcomes birth weight newborn length head circumference univariate analysis multivariate regression analysis performed adjusted differences 95 confidence intervals calculatedmothers exposed shs constituted 31 cohort mean birth weight infants exposed mothers significantly lower 35 g 95 ci 268 g p 0037 mean length shorter 0261 cm 95 ci 00580464 cm p 0012 compared infants unexposed mothers women exposed shs younger lower parity likely illiterate exposed addition exposed women less likely primiparousthe prevalence exposure saudi pregnant women shs high 31 associated reduced birth weight shorter length newborn