Tobacco exposure and impaired development: A review of the evidence

Olds, David L.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2779(1997)3:3<257::aid-mrdd6>3.0.co;2-m

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“…In other words, children exposed to prenatal smoking are also at risk of exposure to additional deleterious substances including alcohol and other drugs [20,22]. Furthermore, parental substance abuse has been tied to the development of behavioral problems in children [27].…”

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Maternal Cigarette Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Externalizing Behavioral Problems: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Boutwell

Beaver

2010

IJERPH

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A body of empirical research has revealed that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke is related to a host of negative outcomes, including reduced cognitive abilities, later-life health problems, and childhood behavioral problems. While these findings are often interpreted as evidence of the causal role that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke has on human phenotypes, emerging evidence has suggested that the association between prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke and behavioral phenotypes may be spurious. The current analysis of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) revealed that the association between prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke and externalizing behavioral problems was fully accounted for by confounding factors. The implications that these findings have for policy and research are discussed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Maternal Cigarette Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Externalizing Behavioral Problems: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Boutwell

Beaver

2010

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“…The exact mechanism through which maternal tobacco exposure predisposes to behavioral problems in offspring is unclear. However, carbon monoxide and nicotine have been implicated in numerous areas of declining neurofunctioning, including noradrenergic disruption and serotonin and dopamine regulation (Muneoka et al, 1997); reductions in brain glucose (Eckstein et al, 1997); and basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, and cerebellar cortex dysfunction (Olds, 1997; Raine, 2002). …”

Section: Empirical Evidence Of Health Risk Factors During Prenatalmentioning

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Early health risk factors for violence: Conceptualization, evidence, and implications

Liu

2011

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Violence and aggression are public health problems that can benefit from ongoing research into risk reduction and prevention. Current developmental theories of violence and aggression emphasize biological and psychosocial factors, particularly during adolescence. However, there has been less focus on understanding the interactive, multiplicative effects of these processes. Furthermore, little attention has been given to the pre-, peri-, and postnatal periods, where prevention and intervention may yield effective results. Early health risk factors that influence negative behavioral outcomes include prenatal and postnatal nutrition, tobacco use during pregnancy, maternal depression, birth complications, traumatic brain injury, lead exposure, and child abuse. There is an ample literature to suggest that these early health risk factors may increase the likelihood of childhood externalizing behaviors, aggression, juvenile delinquency, adult criminal behavior, and/or violence. This paper proposes an early health risk factors framework for violence prediction, built on existing developmental theories of criminal behavior and supported by empirical findings. This framework addresses gaps in the adolescent psychopathology literature and presents a novel conceptualization of behavioral disturbance that emphasizes the pre-, peri-, and post-natal periods, when a child's development is critical and the opportunity for behavioral and environmental modification is high. Implications for such a framework on violence prevention programs are discussed.

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“…attention-deficit disorder, cognitive and language delays) (Fried et al 1987; Mayes 1994; Olds, Henderson, and Tatelbaum 1994a, 1994b; Streissguth et al 1994:148–183; Milberger et al 1996; Olds 1997; Sood et al 2001). Children born with subtle neurological perturbations resulting from prenatal exposure to stress and substances are more likely to be irritable and inconsolable (Saxon 1978; Streissguth et al 1994:148–183; Clark et al 1996), making it more difficult for parents to enjoy their care.…”

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Preventing Child Maltreatment and Crime with Prenatal and Infancy Support of Parents: The Nurse‐Family Partnership

Olds¹

2008

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Pregnancy and the early years of the child's life offer an opportune time to prevent a host of adverse maternal and child outcomes that are important in their own right, but that also have significant implications for the development of criminal behaviour. This paper summarizes a 30-year programme of research that has attempted to improve the health and development of mothers and infants and their future life prospects with prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses. The programme, known today as the Nurse-Family Partnership, is designed for low-income mothers who have had no previous live births. The home visiting nurses have three major goals: to improve the outcomes of pregnancy by helping women improve their prenatal health; to improve the child's health and development by helping parents provide more sensitive and competent care of the child; and to improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their educations, and find work. Given consistent effects on prenatal health behaviours, parental care of the child, child abuse and neglect, child health and development, maternal life-course, and criminal involvement of the mothers and children, the programme is now being offered for public investment throughout the United States, where careful attention is being given to ensuring that the programme is being conducted in accordance with the programme model tested in the randomized trials. The programme also is being adapted, developed, and tested in five countries outside of the US: the Netherlands, Germany, England, Australia, and Canada, where programmatic adjustments are being made to accommodate different populations served and health and human service contexts. We believe it is important to test this programme in randomized controlled trials in these new settings before it is offered for public investment.

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Tobacco exposure and impaired development: A review of the evidence

Cited by 89 publications

References 68 publications

Maternal Cigarette Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Externalizing Behavioral Problems: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Maternal Cigarette Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Externalizing Behavioral Problems: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Early health risk factors for violence: Conceptualization, evidence, and implications

Preventing Child Maltreatment and Crime with Prenatal and Infancy Support of Parents: The Nurse‐Family Partnership

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