PMID: 1203213Dec 1, 1975Paper

Smoking, human placental lactogen and birth weight

British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A BoyceJ Dreyfus

Abstract

Human placental lactogen (HPL) was measured in 525 serum samples from 144 pregnant women and related to smoking habits and the birth weight of their infants. Women smoking during pregnancy were found to have a level of HPL significantly lower than the non-smokers (p less than 0.05). A significant correlation between HPL and birth weight was found (r=0.38); p less than 0.001) which remained significant when smoking was held constant (r=0.35; p less than 0.001). There was no relationship between birth weight and smoking when HPL was held constant.

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