Thuringia Every tenth pregnant woman smokes

Every tenth Thuringian woman smokes during her pregnancy

04/01/2014

Every tenth woman in Thuringia smokes during her pregnancy. Thuringia has been above the national average for years.

Every tenth expectant mother reaches for the cigarette
In Thuringia every tenth woman smokes during her pregnancy. This emerges from a study presented on Friday the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), which is based on a survey of Thuringian hospitals. In 2012, around 16,000 pregnant women were asked if they had smoked during pregnancy. 10.3 percent said yes. „Statistically speaking, every tenth expectant mother reaches for the cigarette, which is associated with considerable risks for unborn life“, said Guido Dressel, head of the TK-Landesvertretung Thüringen. A year earlier, it had been 9.7 percent.

Risk of miscarriage is twice as high
Of those who claimed to have smoked, 1378 women consumed up to ten cigarettes a day. Twenty-five women a day smoked eleven to twenty cigarettes and thirteen women even more than twenty smoldering stalks. „Tobacco use in pregnancy can cause a reduced birth weight as well as an increase in the rate of childhood heart rate“. Dressel explained. In addition, the risk of premature birth and miscarriage is about twice as high.

Thuringia for years above the national average
The state of Thuringia has for years compared to the national average, a significantly higher rate of pregnant women with tobacco consumption. In 2012, 7.7 percent of the mothers-to-be-born in the federal average took their cigarettes, with a tendency to fall. According to Australian scientists, about 15 percent of mothers in western countries smoke during pregnancy. Because it can cause significant harm to children's health, mothers who have smoked during pregnancy, and postpartum physicians, should focus on certain adolescents risk factors such as high blood pressure or low density lipoprotein (LDL)., „the bad cholesterol, pay attention“, As cardiology professor David Celermajer from the University of Sydney explained years ago. (Ad)

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