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Developing structure and function of the foetal brain at risk, research suggests
Jump to full article: The Guardian (uk), 2009-11-03
Author: * Owen Bowcott * The Guardian, Tuesday 3 November 2009
Intro: Smoking during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of having a child with behavioural problems, according to research published today. Disturbances can manifest themselves in children as young as three years old, the study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health claims.
The findings are based on more than 14,000 mother-and-child pairs drawn from the millennium cohort study, a population-based study of children born between 2000 and 2001 whose families are receiving child benefit.
The research was carried out by Professor Kate Pickett, at the department of health sciences at Hull York medical school, University of York.
Mothers, who were categorised as light or heavy smokers, depending on how many cigarettes they smoked every day during pregnancy, were asked to score their children's behaviour.
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