RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Partner cigarette smoking and risk of neural tube defects among infants of non-smoking women in northern China
JF Tobacco Control
JO Tob Control
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 401
OP 405
DO 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050384
VO 22
IS 6
A1 Li, Zhiwen
A1 Zhang, Le
A1 Ye, Rongwei
A1 Liu, Jianmeng
A1 Pei, Lijun
A1 Zheng, Xiaoying
A1 Ren, Aiguo
YR 2013
UL http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/22/6/401.abstract
AB Objectives To investigate the effect of secondhand smoke exposure from a partner on the risk of having a newborn baby with neural tube defects (NTDs) in Chinese non-smoking women. Methods Data were derived from an on-going population-based case–control study of external malformations in northern China. The case group included 580 infants or fetuses with NTDs identified between November 2002 and December 2007. Controls were 795 newborn infants without major external malformations. Data were collected by trained health workers through face-to-face interviews within 1 week after delivery. Results A total of 81.4% of partners of case women and 71.8% of partners of control women smoked during the women's peri-conceptional period. The adjusted OR for NTDs associated with partner smoking was 1.6 (95% CI 1.2 to 2.1). Compared with non-smoking women with non-smoking partners, fetal NTD risk among women with smoking partners was 1.7 (1.3 to 2.4) and 1.1 (0.7 to 1.7) for women exposed and not exposed to partner smoking, respectively. Among women who were exposed to partner smoking, the risk of NTDs was 1.4 (0.9 to 2.0), 1.8 (1.2 to 2.6), 1.9 (1.2 to 3.0) and 2.7 (1.6 to 4.7) for partner smoking of <1, 1–9, 10–19 and ≥20/day, respectively (p for trend <0.001). Conclusion Peri-conceptional exposure to partner smoking may increase the risk of NTDs in the offspring of Chinese non-smoking women.