Abstract
Introduction: it seems that hubble-bubble smoking is most common smoking habit among Iranian women, especially in southern districts of the country. Therefore there was a motivation to evaluate its harmful effects on newborns whose mother smoke hubble-bubble during pregnancy. Materials and methods: A group of women with newborn babies who smoke hubble-bubble during pregnancy were identified and data was collected for them and their babies. A group of women without hubble-bubble smoking in pregnancy were also participated in study as a comparing group. Sample sizes in two groups are 82 and 162, respectively. Results: There was a difference between means of birth weight of newborns in two groups. Multiple and logistic regression was applied to analysis data to ease confounding effects of other characteristics. There was a significant difference of about 160 gr between standardized means of birth weights in two groups. And also risk of having a low body weight (LBW) baby in group with hubble-bubble smoking is three times higher than the control group. Conclusion: This study shows that hubble-bubble smoking in pregnancy increases risk of LBW in newborns, there for to pay more attention and establish suitable policies to decrease prevalence of smoking habits among women is recommended.
Keywords
Birth weight, Hubble-bubble smoking, Pregnancy, Standardized mean and odds-ratio وزن هنگام تولد، مصرف قلیان در حاملگی، میانگین استاندارد شده، نسبت شانس استاندارد شده
Copyright
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