Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of SIDS
Friday, May 30, 2008 - 16:07
in Health & Medicine
A new study provides the most direct evidence that there exists a causal link between smoking during pregnancy and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Clinicians have long considered prenatal cigarette smoke exposure a major contributing risk factor for SIDS, but researchers had not proved a casual relationship...
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