瑞典自1983～1993年进行的一项研究表明,母亲吸烟与婴儿肢体缺陷有关。 瑞典兰德大学研究了1109229例妊娠头3个月结束时有吸烟嗜好的妇女所生的婴儿,其中610例婴儿肢体短小,增率达1.26,即每万例新生婴儿中约6例有肢体短小畸形。 发生肢体短小的原因尚不明了,可能由多种不同原因所造成,但既往其它较小人群研究曾报道与 A study in Sweden from 1983 to 1993 showed that maternal smoking was associated with infant limb defects. Sweden’s Rand University studied 1109229 infants born to women with smoking habits at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, 610 of whom were short with an increase rate of 1.26, or about 6 out of every 10,000 newborn infants deformity. The reason for the shortness of limbs is unclear, and may be caused by a number of different causes, but previous studies in other smaller populations have reported