Maternal Smoking and Socio-Demographic Characteristics in Correlation with Low Birth Weight: A Turin (Piedmont) Study

1. Nafstad P, Botten G, Hagen J. Partner’s smoking: a major determinant for changes in women’s smoking behaviour during and after pregnancy. Public Health 1996; 110: 379-85.10.1016/S0033-3506(96)80012-6Search in Google Scholar

2. Nelson EA, Taylor BJ. International child care practices study: infant sleep position and parental smoking. Early Hum Dev 2001; 64: 7-20.10.1016/S0378-3782(01)00165-7Search in Google Scholar

3. Simpson WJ. A preliminary report on cigarette smoking and the incidence of prematurity. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1957; 73: 807-15.10.1016/0002-9378(57)90391-5Search in Google Scholar

4. De Bernabè JV, Soriano T, Albaladejo R, Juarranz M, Calle ME, Martinez D, et al. Risk factors for low birth weight: a review. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2004; 116: 3-15.10.1016/j.ejogrb.2004.03.007Search in Google Scholar

5. DiFranza JR, Aligne CA, Weitzman M. Prenatal and postnatal environmental tobacco smoke exposure and children’s health. Pediatrics 2004; 113: 1007-15.10.1542/peds.113.S3.1007Search in Google Scholar

6. USDHHS. Women and smoking: a report of the surgeon general. Atlanta, GA: C.f.D.C.a.P. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Smoking and Health, 2001.Search in Google Scholar

7. USDHHS. The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke: a report of the surgeon general. Atlanta, GA: C.f.D.C.a.P. U.S.\ Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006.Search in Google Scholar

8. Konstantinova NN, Garmasheva NL. Pathogenesis of fetal growth retardation and behavioral disorders in the progeny caused by smoking during pregnancy. Vestn Akad Med Nauk SSSR 1989; 3: 42-50.Search in Google Scholar

9. Xiao D, Huang X, Yang S, Zhang L. Direct effects of nicotine on contractility of the uterine artery in pregnancy. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2007; 322: 180-5.10.1124/jpet.107.119354Search in Google Scholar

10. Lambers DS, Clark KE. The maternal and fetal physiologic effects of nicotine. Semin Perinatol 1996; 20: 115-26.10.1016/S0146-0005(96)80079-6Search in Google Scholar

11. Bizon A, Milnerowicz-Nabzdyk E, Zalewska M, Zimmer M, Milnerowicz H. Changes in pro/antioxidant balance in smoking and non-smoking pregnant women with intrauterine growth restriction. Reprod Toxicol 2011; 32: 360-7.10.1016/j.reprotox.2011.08.007Search in Google Scholar

12. Blake KV, Gurrin LC, Evans SF, Beilin LJ, Landau LI, Stanley FJ, et al. Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy, low birth weight and subsequent blood pressure in early childhood. Early Hum Dev 2000; 57: 137-47.10.1016/S0378-3782(99)00064-XSearch in Google Scholar

13. Kvale K, Glysch RL, Gothard M, Aakko E, Remington P. Trends in smoking during pregnancy, Wisconsin 1990 to 1996. WMJ 2000; 99: 63-7.Search in Google Scholar

14. Rogers JM. Tobacco and pregnancy. Reprod Toxicol 2009; 28: 152-60.10.1016/j.reprotox.2009.03.01219450949Search in Google Scholar

15. Windham G, Hopkins B, Fenster L, Swan S. Prenatal active or passive tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of preterm delivery or low birth weight. Epidemiology 2000; 11: 427-33.10.1097/00001648-200007000-0001110874550Search in Google Scholar

16. Kramer MS. Determinants of low birth weight: methodological assessment and meta-analysis. Bull WHO 1987; 65: 663-737.Search in Google Scholar

17. Leonardi-Bee J, Smyth A, Britton J, Coleman T. Environmental tobacco smoke and fetal health: systematic review and meta-analysis. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2008; 93: F351-61.10.1136/adc.2007.13355318218658Search in Google Scholar

18. STROBE Statement-checklist of items that should be included in reports of case-control studies. Version 4 as published in Oct/Nov 2007. Available July 1, 2013 from: http://www.strobe-statement.org/index. php?id=available-checklists.Search in Google Scholar

19. Little J, Higgins JP, Ioannidis JP, Moher D, Gagnon F, von Elm E, et al. STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA): an extension of the STROBE statement. Ital J Public Health 2009; 6: 238-55.10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398441.003.0010Search in Google Scholar

20. United States Environmental Protective Agency. Respiratory health effects of passive smoking: lung cancer and other disorders. Washington DC: United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1992.Search in Google Scholar

21. Spinillo A, Capuzzo E, Nicola SE, Colonna L, Egbe TO, Zara C. Factors potentiating the smoking-related risk of fetal growth retardation. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1994; 101: 954-8.10.1111/j.1471-0528.1994.tb13038.x7999725Search in Google Scholar

22. Lazzaroni F, Bonass S, Manniello E, Morcaldi L, Repetto E, Ruocco A, et al. Effect of passive smoking during pregnancy on selected perinatal parameters. Int J Epidemiol 1990; 19: 960-6.10.1093/ije/19.4.9602084028Search in Google Scholar

23. Fantuzzi G, Aggazzotti G, Righi E, Facchinetti F, Bertucci E, Kanitz S, et al. Preterm delivery and exposure to active and passive smoking during pregnancy: a case-control study from Italy. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2007; 21: 194-200.10.1111/j.1365-3016.2007.00815.x17439527Search in Google Scholar