Care este comportamentul româncelor privind fumatul şi consumul de alcool în timpul sarcinii

Although it is well known the fact that smoking and alcohol have only harmful effects on health, these habits affect a large percentage of the global population. Motivated by the fact that numerous studies conducted over the years have not succeeded in solving exactly the real dimension of addiction to tobacco, alcohol or drugs during pregnancy, or the effects on the newborn, in 2016 we started a populational study in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the “St. Pantelimon” Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest. In 2017 we initiated a similar study which examined, inter alia, the adolescents’ behavior disorders during pregnancy, including one that is addressed to these three types of addiction. So, we found that teenage girls smoke more frequently during pregnancy than pregnant women from the control group, and that fetal somatic type and functional deficiencies (the average weight or gestational age at birth, the average APGAR score at birth) are statistically significant for the newborns of these addicted women.