Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like.

@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like.

MsSprouts [she/her] · 11 months ago

I wonder how much that affected the life expectancy of those kids

@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Quite a lot. Most mothers smoked while pregnant and gave their kids asthma as a result, and ADHD too. That’s why you see more of that.

@FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

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@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260151/

@FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

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tiredofsametab · 11 months ago

My mom quit smoking before pregnancy, and dad never smoked. Still neurodivergent. I’ve not personally heard of a causal link there before.

@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260151/

tiredofsametab · 11 months ago

Thanks, but, uh:

CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring ADHD is not due to causal intrauterine effects, but reflects unmeasured confounding.