Maternal Smoking - Increase The Risk Of Childhood Depression And Anxiety
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According to the Dutch researchers women who smoke at the time pregnancy may putting their children at the risk of depression and anxiety. In the research it is found that maternal smoking directly associated with the aggression, delinquency, hyperactivity and various other externalizing behaviors which generally began at childhood and remain continue up to the adulthood.
A research conducted on 400 parents and their children which belong to the age group of 5, 10 and 18 years of age. In which 7 percent of the mothers were continuously smoking 10 or more cigarettes at the time of their pregnancy. The children of these mothers comprised the “exposed” group. When these children compare with the children (of their similar age groups) whose mother did not smoke at the time of their pregnancy have higher average scores of both internalizing and externalizing behaviors at each age.
The result of this research clearly suggests that prenatally exposed children had significantly increased internalizing and externalizing problems from childhood into late adolescence.
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I’m such an anti-smoker, I’d love for this data to be significant.