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FEDRICK et al.1 have produced data to show that the incidence of congenital heart disease in infants of mothers who are cigarette smokers is significantly higher than among infants of non-smoking mothers. In our child health development studies my colleagues and I have attempted to duplicate those findings which relate to their “control week” data. We used the same criteria, thus omitting all multiple births and all cases in which the defect was associated with anencephalus, spina bifida or Down's syndrome. We found no difference in the proportion of smokers and non-smokers between mothers of affected and unaffected children. Thus we found no difference between the children of smoking and non-smoking mothers with regard to the incidence of congenital heart disease (Table 1).
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YERUSHALMY, J. Congenital Heart Disease and Maternal Smoking Habits. Nature 242, 262 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242262a0
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