Smoking during pregnancy in Finland - Trends in the MATEX cohort.

CONCLUSIONS: The observed increase in smoking rate during pregnancy in teenage and young women is concerning. Pregnancy is a trigger point for smoking cessation in a big fraction of pregnant women. More studies are needed to explain the opposite trends of smoking rates in Northern and Western Finland compared with Eastern Finland.
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Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - October 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rumrich IK, Vähäkangas K, Viluksela M, Gissler M, Surcel HM, Korhonen A, De Ruyter H, Hänninen O Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research