Maternal smoking in pregnancy and birth defects: A systematic review based on 173 687 malformed cases and 11.7 million controls

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 589-604

  Hackshaw, Allan ^a   Rodeck, Charles ^a   Boniface, Sadie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Fetal development; Malformations; Maternal smoking; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANUS ATRESIA; BIRTH DEFECT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLUBFOOT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CRYPTORCHISM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EYE MALFORMATION; FACE MALFORMATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROSCHISIS; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; SMOKING CESSATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 80051925984     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmr022     Document Type: Review

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