The effect of maternal cigarette smoking on fetal birth weight and on growth of the fetal biparietal diameter.
Two otherwise comparable groups of patients, 27 of whom were non-smokers and 20 of whom smoked in excess of ten cigarettes per day, had serial fetal biparietal diameter measurements taken throughout pregnancy; from 21 weeks onwards, the fetal biparietal diameters increased significantly more slowly (p < 0.01) in mothers who smoked.
D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight; D002508:Cephalometry; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010294:Parietal Bone / Q000196:embryology; D011247:Pregnancy; D012907:Smoking / Q000150:complications*; D014463:Ultrasonography