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Smoking and birth defects

Dr. Sadia Malik of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences says her study found that women who smoked were more likely to have a baby with certain heart problems.

Women who had infants with congenital heart disease were more likely to have smoked any time during the month before pregnancy to the end of the first trimester than women who had infants without birth defects.�� (nine seconds)



Last revised: November 15, 2006

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