IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/1995853395-398_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Passive and active maternal smoking as measured by serum cotinine: The effect on birthweight

Author

Listed:
  • Eskenazi, B.
  • Prehn, A.W.
  • Christianson, R.E.

Abstract

To determine how maternal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke affects birthweight, maternal sera obtained from 3529 pregnant women around 27 weeks gestation were analyzed for cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine. Based on cotinine levels, nonsmokers were divided into those exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (2-10 ng/mL) and those unexposed (

Suggested Citation

  • Eskenazi, B. & Prehn, A.W. & Christianson, R.E., 1995. "Passive and active maternal smoking as measured by serum cotinine: The effect on birthweight," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 85(3), pages 395-398.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1995:85:3:395-398_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hong Cui & Ting-Ting Gong & Cai-Xia Liu & Qi-Jun Wu, 2016. "Associations between Passive Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Preterm Birth: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(1), pages 1-18, January.
    2. Thomas G Land & Anna S Landau & Susan E Manning & Jane K Purtill & Kate Pickett & Lauren Wakschlag & Vanja M Dukic, 2012. "Who Underreports Smoking on Birth Records: A Monte Carlo Predictive Model with Validation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(4), pages 1-8, April.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1995:85:3:395-398_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.