Smoking affects pregnant women, newborns schizophrenia
Smoking affects pregnant women, newborns schizophrenia
Since the prevalence of smoking, and constant warnings about diseases caused by smoking to all people in general that,
A recent US study, warned that smoking does not harm the health of the mother alone during pregnancy, but it doubles the risk of injury to their offspring schizophrenia.
The researchers Medical Center of Columbia University explained that babies born to smoking mothers, are more prone to schizophrenia by 38%, and published their findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
He said the research team, said that previous studies have found that smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of birth for many health problems, including birth defects and infant mortality, but the study suggests for the first time that maternal prenatal smoking affects the child’s mental health.
And see the research team, 977 patients with schizophrenia records of the children, collected from national registries in Finland between 1983-1998.
Floor and researchers date of birth of these children, health record, compared with people who do not suffer from schizophrenia.
The scientists analyzed the effects of smoking in these by looking at the rates of substance “cotinine” in the blood, and found that 20% of the mothers of schizophrenics who smoked heavily during pregnancy, compared with 14.7% of the mothers do not suffer from schizophrenia.
The researchers found that pregnant women exposed to nicotine, a substance found in tobacco dramatically, increasing the risk of injury to infants schizophrenia by 38%.
Professor Alan Brown, research team leader said that “This study is the first to show a relationship between prenatal exposure to nicotine during pregnancy, suffering from schizophrenia after childbirth.”
Schizophrenia and lead of weak social interaction, cognition and exploratory behaviors, high anxiety levels, and the inability to distinguish unnecessary information.
According to the World Health Organization, tobacco kills nearly 6 million people Eastern Mediterranean Region annually, including more than 5 million injecting current and former tobacco, and about 600 thousand people from nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke, because it is one of the main causes of many chronic diseases, including cancer, lung disease, heart disease, and blood vessels.
The organization added that unless action is taken in this regard, the tobacco that kills as many as 8 million people a year, 80% of them live in low- and middle-income countries by 2030.