Risk Of SIDS Is Twice-Linked To Smoking During Pregnancy

�In a first e'er experimental study to compare breathing reflexes of preemies born to smokers with those born to non-smokers, researchers in
Canada establish that previous babies whose mothers smoke-cured during pregnancy are likely to be at a higher risk of infection of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(SIDS) than premature infants whose mothers did not.


The study was the work of principal researcher Dr Shabih Hasan and colleagues from the Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Maternal and Child
Health, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and is published in the first of the September issues of the American
Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Hasan is a a staff neonatologist and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the
University.


Hasan and colleagues set up that babies whose mothers had smoke-dried while pregnant showed a number of signs of poor respiration. Smoking during
pregnancy appears to deliver a double whammy, as Hasan explained:


"Not only does it raise a mother's likelihood of having a preterm baby, who is already among the virtually vulnerable to SIDS, just it increases the infant's
susceptibility to SIDS even further."


Scientists already knew that low oxygen or hypoxia, coupled with an overabundance of carbon paper dioxide (hypercapnia), were predictors of SIDS, since babies
at sterling risk of the syndrome tend to respond less effectively to low o and/or excess carbon dioxide.


Babies born prematurely have greater difficulty breathing, which increases in proportion to how early they arrive. And cigarette fume is known to
cause apneas (when breathing michigan) in replete term babies. But the two personal effects had not been looked at together.


"Cigarette smoke pic and preterm birth feature not been investigated together with obedience to their potential effects on respiratory dysfunction"
aforesaid Hasan.


For the study, Hasan and colleagues recruited 22 preterm babies who had been born spontaneously, with no other complicating respiratory factors,
'tween weeks 28 and 32 of pregnancy. 12 of the babies' mothers smoke-cured 5 or more cigarettes a day during gestation, while the other babies'
mothers did not (these babies were the mastery group).


Before starting the experiment (baseline), the researchers measured the breathing rate, pauses in breath, recovery period and heart pace of all the
babies in both the butt smoke uncovered group and the control group. They also measured how much oxygen was in their blood (atomic number 8
saturation levels).


After this, they "challenged" the babies' breathing power by putt a tube-shaped structure in their nose and giving them air with less than the normal amount of oxygen
in it for five proceedings, and took the readings again, under the poorer oxygen conditions. The babies were monitored closely, with resuscitation
equipment on standby.


The results showed that:
Some of the respiration pattern readings were very similar in the group of babies born to mothers wHO smoked during pregnancy and in the group
of babies whose mothers did not.
But the heart pace and retrieval period differences between the two groups differed significantly.

The babies world Health Organization had been exposed to cigarette pot as fetuses showed increased heart rate while external respiration oxygen poor air compared to
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The "Tent State Music Festival to End the War" will take place August 27 at the Denver Coliseum and feature sets by Rage, the Flobots, the Coup, State Radio and former MC5 guitar player Wayne Kramer, whose proto-punk band famously performed against the wishes of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the violent protests international the 1968 DNC gathering. The circle went home plate without their instruments, only they did have bloody battle scars from brawls with police.

Rage also know a thing or deuce about acquiring shut down at the DNC, as their 2000 set during the party's gathering in Los Angeles erupted in chaos when police rushed in and used bust gas to disperse the crowd. This year's all-ages show testament begin at 11 a.m., and tickets ar free to those world Health Organization sign up for the lottery by presenting a valid ID at the Tent State University location in Denver between August 24 and August 26. Winners will be notified by electronic mail on August 26.

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