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Reassessing The Impact Of Smoking On Preeclampsia/Eclampsia: Are There Age And Racial Differences?, Jen Jen Chang, Jerome F. Strauss, Jonathan P. Deshazo, Fidelma B. Rigby, David P. Chelmow, George A. Macones
Reassessing The Impact Of Smoking On Preeclampsia/Eclampsia: Are There Age And Racial Differences?, Jen Jen Chang, Jerome F. Strauss, Jonathan P. Deshazo, Fidelma B. Rigby, David P. Chelmow, George A. Macones
Obstetrics and Gynecology Publications
Objective
To investigate the association between cigarette use during pregnancy and pregnancy-induced hypertension/preeclampsia/eclampsia (PIH) by maternal race/ethnicity and age.
Methods
This retrospective cohort study was based on the U.S. 2010 natality data. Our study sample included U.S. women who delivered singleton pregnancies between 20 and 44 weeks of gestation without major fetal anomalies in 2010 (n = 3,113,164). Multivariate logistic regression models were fit to estimate crude and adjusted odds ratios and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals.
Results
We observed that the association between maternal smoking and PIH varied by maternal race/ethnicity and age. Compared with non-smokers, reduced odds of …