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“ 6 exposures (unplanned pregnancy; maternal alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco use early in pregnancy; pregnancy complications; and birth complications) independe
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
“ 6 exposures (unplanned pregnancy; maternal alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco use early in pregnancy; pregnancy complications; and birth complications) independently associated with significant but small increases in CBCL total score. Among these 6, none increased the odds of crossing the threshold for clinically significant symptoms by itself. However, odds of exceeding this threshold became significant with 2 exposures (OR = 1.86, 95% CI 1.47–2.36), and increased linearly with each level of exposure (OR = 1.39, 95% CI 1.31–1.47), up to 3.53-fold for ≥4 exposures versus none”
- ttpphd 4y agoHuh. Weird that from that result the focus of the conversation is on cannabis.
- tyree731 4y agoWell, most of the other factors were pretty agreeable, with marijuana being a somewhat surprising result.
- viridian 4y agoAlcohol and tobacco cessation are heavily pushed on you the second you begin to try to conceive. Doctors tell you there is no safe amount of alcohol. The only place weed was even mentioned to me was in the Mayo clinic guide to pregnancy, once. You are a dozen times more likely to get the smoking lecture and hundreds of times more likely to get the booze lecture at any given time.
- ttpphd 4y agoWhat about the unplanned pregnancy lecture? Seems like exactly the kind of stressful life event that would exacerbate maternal health!
- jonhohle 4y agoIIRC, earlier research by Bledsoe and Davies at UWashington found lots of confounding factors for maternal drug use. For example, alcohol use by crack users during pregnancy was effectively universal making it likely that the crack-baby epidemic in the 90s was most likely FAS. I believe they also found no correlation between marijuana use and developmental delays.