It doesn't matter how many cigarettes the pregnant woman smokes a day. Researchers from Microsoft and the Seattle Children's Research Institute (United States) have concluded that Any amount of tobacco, however minimal, increases the risk of the baby suffering from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
According to his study, published in the journal Pediatrics, not smoking during pregnancy could prevent 800 of the approximately 3,700 deaths from sudden death that occur each year in the United States, and reduce rates by 22 percent.
Not a drag!
No one is surprised by the news that tobacco has very negative effects on the health of the pregnant woman and the fetus. But future mothers still do not have healthy habits.
In Babies and more, one in three pregnant women consume toxic substances such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs or drugsNow, new scientific research has shown new dangers for babies and the possibility that they die suddenly while they sleep. According to this joint study by Microsoft and the Seattle Children's Research Institute, the risk of the baby suffering from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) increases with every cigarette his mother smokes during pregnancy.
But there is more: although smoking less or quitting smoking during pregnancy can help, there is a greater risk of SIDS even if the woman has quit smoking just before becoming pregnant.
Tatiana Anderson, a postdoctoral research fellow at Seattle Children's, points out that she worked on the study, which "Any amount of tobacco, even a daily cigarette, can double the risk."
A large sample for the study
The team analyzed a large number of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that included all babies born in the United States between 2007 and 2011. In that period of time, more than 20 million Babies and 19,127 suffered sudden death.
The study found that The risk of SIDS is doubled if a person goes from not smoking to smoking only one cigarette a day during pregnancy. With a pack a day (20 cigarettes), the risk triples compared to non-smokers.
In Babies and moreWorld Day without tobacco 2018: if you are pregnant, stop smoking, for your baby and for youThe probability of sudden death decreases when women quit smoking or smoke less: mothers who smoked less in the third trimester reduced the risks by 12 percent. While Quitting the smoke completely in the last three months of gestation decreased the risk of SIDS by 23 percent.
In summary: the greatest predictor of the risk of SIDS was the average number of cigarettes smoked daily throughout the pregnancy, not smoking more or less at a particular time. Thus the study determined that "the baby of a woman who smoked 20 cigarettes per day in the first trimester and reduced them to 10 cigarettes per day in the following quarters, had a risk of suffering Sudden Infant Death Syndrome similar to that of a woman who smoked an average of 13 cigarettes daily throughout pregnancy. "
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