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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring smoking initiation: assessing the role of intrauterine exposure.

ABSTRACT: To assess whether associations between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring smoking initiation are due to intrauterine mechanisms.Comparison of associations of maternal and partner smoking behaviour during pregnancy with offspring smoking initiation using partner smoking as a negative control (n?=?6484) and a Mendelian randomization analysis (n?=?1020), using a genetic variant in the mothers as a proxy for smoking cessation during pregnancy.A longitudinal birth cohort in South West England.Participants of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).Smoking status during pregnancy was self-reported by mother and partner in questionnaires administered at pregnancy. Latent classes of offspring smoking initiation (non-smokers, experimenters, late-onset regular smokers and early-onset regular smokers) were previously developed from questionnaires administered at 14-16 years. A genetic variant, rs1051730, was genotyped in the mothers.Both mother and partner smoking were similarly positively associated with offspring smoking initiation classes, even after adjustment for confounders. Odds ratios (OR) [95% confidence interval (CI)] for class membership compared with non-smokers were: experimenters: mother OR?=?1.33 (95% CI?=?1.06, 1.67), partner OR?=?1.28 (95% CI?=?1.06, 1.55), late-onset regular smokers: mother OR?=?1.80 (95% CI?=?1.43, 2.26), partner OR?=?1.86 (95% CI?=?1.52, 2.28) and early-onset regular smokers: mother OR?=?2.89 (95% CI?=?2.12, 3.94), partner OR?=?2.50 (95% CI?=?1.85, 3.37). There was no clear evidence for a dose-response effect of either mother or partner smoking heaviness on class membership. Maternal rs1051730 genotype was not clearly associated with offspring smoking initiation class in pre-pregnancy smokers (P?=?0.35).The association between smoking during pregnancy and offspring smoking initiation does not appear to operate through intrauterine mechanisms.

SUBMITTER: Taylor AE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4114534 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring smoking initiation: assessing the role of intrauterine exposure.

Taylor Amy E AE Howe Laura D LD Heron Jon E JE Ware Jennifer J JJ Hickman Matthew M Munafò Marcus R MR

Addiction (Abingdon, England) 20140317 6

<h4>Aims</h4>To assess whether associations between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring smoking initiation are due to intrauterine mechanisms.<h4>Design</h4>Comparison of associations of maternal and partner smoking behaviour during pregnancy with offspring smoking initiation using partner smoking as a negative control (n = 6484) and a Mendelian randomization analysis (n = 1020), using a genetic variant in the mothers as a proxy for smoking cessation during pregnancy.<h4>Setting</h4> ...[more]

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Project description:OBJECTIVE:To study the impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy on fractures in offspring during different developmental stages of life. DESIGN:National register based birth cohort study with a sibling comparison design. SETTING:Sweden. PARTICIPANTS:1?680?307 people born in Sweden between 1983 and 2000 to women who smoked (n=377?367, 22.5%) and did not smoke (n=1?302?940) in early pregnancy. Follow-up was until 31 December 2014. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE:Fractures by attained age up to 32 years. RESULTS:During a median follow-up of 21.1 years, 377?970 fractures were observed (the overall incidence rate for fracture standardised by calendar year of birth was 11.8 per 1000 person years). The association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk of fracture in offspring differed by attained age. Maternal smoking was associated with a higher rate of fractures in offspring before 1 year of age in the entire cohort (birth year standardised fracture rates in those exposed and unexposed to maternal smoking were 1.59 and 1.28 per 1000 person years, respectively). After adjustment for potential confounders the hazard ratio for maternal smoking compared with no smoking was 1.27 (95% confidence interval 1.12 to 1.45). This association followed a dose dependent pattern (compared with no smoking, hazard ratios for 1-9 cigarettes/day and ?10 cigarettes/day were 1.20 (95% confidence interval 1.03 to 1.39) and 1.41 (1.18 to 1.69), respectively) and persisted in within-sibship comparisons although with wider confidence intervals (compared with no smoking, 1.58 (1.01 to 2.46)). Maternal smoking during pregnancy was also associated with an increased fracture incidence in offspring from age 5 to 32 years in whole cohort analyses, but these associations did not follow a dose dependent gradient. In within-sibship analyses, which controls for confounding by measured and unmeasured shared familial factors, corresponding point estimates were all close to null. Maternal smoking was not associated with risk of fracture in offspring between the ages of 1 and 5 years in any of the models. CONCLUSION:Prenatal exposure to maternal smoking is associated with an increased rate of fracture during the first year of life but does not seem to have a long lasting biological influence on fractures later in childhood and up to early adulthood.

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring smoking initiation: assessing the role of intrauterine exposure.

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