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Smoking Patterns and Receipt of Cessation Services Among Pregnant Women in Argentina and Uruguay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Introduction: The 5A’s (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange) strategy, a best-practice approach for cessation counseling, has been widely implemented in high-income countries for pregnant women; however, no studies have evaluated implementation in ...
Alemán, Alicia   +16 more
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In utero tobacco smoke exposure, DNA methylation, and asthma in Latino children. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BackgroundMaternal smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for chronic disease later in life and has been associated with variability of DNA methylation at specific cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) loci.
Barker   +47 more
core   +1 more source

Midwives’ engagement in smoking- and alcohol-prevention in prenatal care before and after the introduction of practice guidelines in Switzerland : comparison of survey findings from 2008 and 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Evidence suggests that cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy negatively impacts fetal health. Health agencies across countries have developed specific guidelines for health professionals in perinatal care to strengthen ...
Gkiouleka, Anna   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Tobacco use in the third trimester of pregnancy and its relationship to birth weight. A prospective study in Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background Few studies have been carried out in Spain examining the use of tobacco amongst expectant mothers and its effect on birth weight. Aims To observe the proportion of expectant mothers who smoke during their pregnancy, and the impact of tobacco ...
Castro Sanchez, EM   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Adverse health effects of prenatal and postnatal tobacco smoke exposure on children [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2003
Parents who choose to smoke are possibly not aware of, or deny, the negative effects of passive smoking on their offspring. This review summarises a wide range of effects of passive smoking on mortality and morbidity in children. It offers paediatricians, obstetricians, specialists in preventive child health care, general practitioners, and midwives an
Hofhuis, WJD (Ward)   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Paternal Tobacco Smoke Correlated to Offspring Asthma and Prenatal Epigenetic Programming

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2019
Rationale: Little is known about effects of paternal tobacco smoke (PTS) on the offspring’s asthma and its prenatal epigenetic programming.Objective: To investigate whether PTS exposure was associated with the offspring’s asthma and correlated to ...
Chih-Chiang Wu   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association between exposure to second-hand smoke and telomere length: cross-sectional study of 1303 non-smokers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Both active smoking and second-hand smoke (SHS) are important risk factors for many age-related diseases. Active smoking is associated with shortened telomere length. However, whether SHS accelerates telomere attrition with age is uncertain.
Johnman, Cathy   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Is the growth of the child of a smoking mother influenced by the father's prenatal exposure to tobacco? A hypothesis generating longitudinal study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
OBJECTIVES: Transgenerational effects of different environmental exposures are of major interest, with rodent experiments focusing on epigenetic mechanisms. Previously, we have shown that if the study mother is a non-smoker, there is increased mean birth
Golding, Jean   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Smoking Behaviors and Abstinence in Low-Income Pregnant Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: Despite efforts to educate individuals about the hazards of smoking, pregnant women continue to smoke. In the literature, there is less evidence about successful abstinence strategies for low-income women.
Alverson, Elise M, Kessler, Terry A
core   +4 more sources

Postnatal Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure Related to Behavioral Problems in Children. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between pre and post environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and behavioral problems in schoolchildren.In the cross-sectional 6 cities Study conducted in France, 5221 primary school children ...
Julie Chastang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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