Publication details
Změny kuřáckého chování žen v těhotenství - Výsledky studie ELSPAC
| Title in English | Changes of Smoking Behaviour of Women during Pregnancy - Results of ELSPAC Study |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 1999 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Praktický lékař |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Paediatry |
| Keywords | ELSPAC; pregnancy; smoking cessation |
| Description | In a group of 3897 women from Brno, included in the ELSPAC study who were pregnant during the period between 1990-2 were 41,6 % women with a history of smoking. Among the smokers were most frequently light smokers, smoking less than 10 cogarettes per day (57,4 %). Medium have smokers were recorded in 32,4 % and there were 9 % women who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day. Before pregnancy and during pregnancy a statistically significant reduction of the number of smokers occured; at the benning of pregnancy 20,5 %, during the 20th week 8,2 % women. The prevalence of smokers dropped most markedly in the group of women smoking less than 10 cigarettes per day; at the onset of pregnancy on third smoked, in mid-pregnancy one tenth. In the group of medium heavy smokers (10-19 cigarettes per day) the ratio of smokers was at the above stages of pregnancy 66,5 % and 31,0 % resp. As to heavy smokers, at the onset of pregnancy 26,7 % stopped smoking and by the 20th week 57,5 %. The majority of women who did not stop smoking during pregnancy reduced the number of cigarettes. |