The roles of familial transmission and smoking during pregnancy on executive function skills: A sibling-comparison study.

ABSTRACT: This research examines maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk for poorer executive function in siblings discordant for exposure. Data (N = 173 families) were drawn from the Missouri Mothers and Their Children study, a sample, identified using birth records (years 1998-2005), in which mothers changed smoking behavior between two pregnancies (Child 1 [older sibling]: M _age = 12.99; Child 2 [younger sibling]: M _age = 10.19). A sibling comparison approach was used, providing a robust test for the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and different aspects of executive function in early-mid adolescence. Results suggested within-family (i.e., potentially causal) associations between maternal smoking during pregna

SUBMITTER: Knopik VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710697 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature