Maternal use of cigarettes, pipes, and smokeless tobacco associated with higher infant mortality rates in Cambodia

Type Journal Article - Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
Title Maternal use of cigarettes, pipes, and smokeless tobacco associated with higher infant mortality rates in Cambodia
Author(s)
Volume 25
Issue 5
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 64S-74S
URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043076/
Abstract
In the Western Pacific Region, rural women use loose tobacco in betel quid chewing and pipe smoking. We examined the relation between maternal use of tobacco and infant mortality (IM) in a national sample of 24 296 birth outcomes in adult women (n = 6013) in Cambodia. We found that (1) age-adjusted odds of IM were higher for maternal use of any tobacco (odds ratio [OR] = 1.69; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.27–2.26); (2) age-adjusted odds of IM were higher for cigarette use (OR = 2.54; 95% CI = 1.54–4.1), use of pipes (OR = 3.09; [95% CI = 1.86–5.11]), and betel quid chewing (OR = 1.55; 95% CI = 1.10–2.17); and (3) these associations remained after multivariable adjustment for environmental tobacco smoke, malnutrition, ethnicity, religion, marital status, education, income, occupation, and urban/rural dwelling. In addition to finding the established association with cigarettes, we also found that maternal use of smokeless tobacco and pipes was associated with higher rates of infant death in Cambodia.

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