The Relationship between Maternal Smoking and Infant Birth Weight: Improving Accuracy through Urine Cotinine Analysis and Effective Medical Record Strategies

• Main Authors: Danica Vojisavljevic (Author), Donna Rudd (Author), Roger Smith (Author), Yogavijayan Kandasamy (Author)
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• Udgivet: MDPI AG, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objective: We conducted a study to determine if antenatally collected maternal urine cotinine (a metabolite of nicotine) measurements can be used to assess the neonatal impact of nicotine exposure during pregnancy. This was a prospective longitudinal cohort of mother-infant dyads. Only term singleto...