Pregnancy
Scientists at McGill University Discuss Research in Pregnancy
Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 30th, 2011
2011 JUN 30 -- According to recent research from Montreal, Canada, "Most biomarker studies of the effects of maternal smoking on fetal growth have been based on a single blood or urinary cotinine value, which is inadequate in capturing maternal tobacco exposure over the entire pregnancy. We used hair biomarkers to compare the associations of maternal self-reported smoking, hair nicotine, and hair cotinine with birth weight for gestational age (BW for GA) among active and passive smokers during pregnancy."
"We collected maternal hair in the immediate postpartum period and measured nicotine and cotinine concentrations averaged over the pregnancy in 444 term...
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