Maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study was aimed at assessing the effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on metabolic cardiovascular risk factors in early adulthood in a Brazilian birth cohort, after controlling for possible confounding variables and health behaviors in early adulthood.

Methods

In 1982, the maternity hospitals in Pelotas, southern Brazil, were visited and all births were identified. Those livebirths whose family lived in the urban area of the city were studied prospectively. In 2004-2005, we attempted to follow the whole cohort, the subjects were interviewed, examined and blood sample was collected. The following outcomes were studied: blood pressure; HDL cholesterol; triglycerides; random blood glucose and C-reactive protein. To explore the effect of maternal smoking, w

SUBMITTER: Horta BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3234339 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature