Prenatal cannabis use disorder and infant hospitalization and death in the first year of life.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether maternal cannabis use disorder is associated with infant hospitalization or death in the first year of life.

Methods

We queried an administrative birth cohort derived from the hospital discharge database maintained by the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and linked with vital statistics files. We included singleton, live-birth deliveries between 2011 and 2018. Pregnancies with cannabis use disorder were classified from International Classification of Disease codes. Outcomes included infant emergency department visits and hospital admissions identified from health records, and infant deaths identified from death records. Models were adjusted for sociodemographic variables, psychiatric comorbidities and other substan

SUBMITTER: Bandoli G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10363398 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature