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  • Title: [Smoking and pregnancy].
    Author: Ledermair O.
    Journal: Wien Med Wochenschr; 1988 Apr 15; 138(6-7):138-9. PubMed ID: 3394328.
    Abstract:
    Smoking is associated with risks for complications of pregnancy, for negative effects of fetal outcome (birth weight, mental development), with delayed conception, with higher risks for cardiovascular disease at oral contraceptive use and for cancer of cervix uteri. The price of smoking that women pay includes reduced fertility, less chance of carrying a healthy child, restriction in choice of birth control methods, and the risk of having cancer of the cervix uteri. A woman who has the ability to develop human life within her body should therefore quit smoking. Even after birth a bond between mother and child exists for years and a smoking mother serves as a bad example. Unfortunately, the number of women smokers has increased significantly during the last decades. In Austria and Switzerland, almost as many women as men smoke in the middle age groups. The article reviews some of the many test results available with reference to the effect of smoking on fertility, pregnancy, contraception and cancer. In 1 U.S. study of 600 women, fertility of smokers were shown to be 72% of that for non-smokers, 57% for heavy smokers and 75% for light smokers. It has been shown that during pregnancy birth weight is reduced as of the 35th week, approximately 220g per term. This and other complications associated with smoking seem to result from a reduced vascular supply of the placenta. A study in Pennsylvania focused on the postnatal development of children born to smoking mothers. Hyperactivity, shortened attention span, poorer results at speech and reading tests were more frequent for those children. With reference to contraceptive methods it has been found that women on the pill run a quadruple risk of having a heart attack, and if they are smoking more than 25 cigarettes/day have an almost 40 times greater risk of heart attack, increased even greater if they are adipose. The pill and smoking promotes the tendency to thrombosis. One of the most frequent carcinomas in women is at the cervix uteri. A report in one medical journal that smoking had a preventive effect on cancer of the mucous membrane of the cervix uteri is emphatically rejected.
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