the effects of smoking and hypertensive disorders on fetal growth吸烟和高血压疾病对胎儿生长的影响.pdfVIP

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central Research article Open Access The effects of smoking and hypertensive disorders on fetal growth Svein Rasmussen*1,2 and Lorentz M Irgens1 Address: 1Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Locus of Registry Based Epidemiology, University of Bergen and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway and 2Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Email: Svein Rasmussen* - mfrsr@mfr.uib.no; Lorentz M Irgens - Lorentz.Irgens@mfr.uib.no * Corresponding author Published: 21 April 2006 Received: 20 January 2006 Accepted: 21 April 2006 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth2006, 6:16 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-6-16 This article is available from: /1471-2393/6/16 © 2006Rasmussen and Irgens; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: It is well known that smoking and pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) are associated with decreased fetal growth. It has been reported that in preeclampsia the fetal growth deficit attributable to smoking is higher, which has been contradicted in other studies. We therefore evaluated the effects on fetal growth of early- and late onset PIH and chronic