Maternal Use of Cigarettes, Pipes, and Smokeless Tobacco Associated With Higher Infant Mortality Rates in Cambodia

作者：Singh Pramil N^*; Eng Carlin; Yel Daravuth; Kheam They; Job Jayakaran S; K**** Koum

来源：Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2013, 25(S5): 64S-74S.

DOI：10.1177/1010539513493458

• water pipe
• smoking
• tobacco
• drug abuse
• public health
• maternal and child health
• women%26apos
• s health
• family medicine
• global health

In the Western Pacific Region, rural women use loose tobacco in betel quid chewing and pipe smoking. We examined the relation between maternal use of tobacco and infant mortality (IM) in a national sample of 24 296 birth outcomes in adult women (n = 6013) in Cambodia. We found that (1) age-adjusted odds of IM were higher for maternal use of any tobacco (odds ratio [OR] = 1.69; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.27-2.26); (2) age-adjusted odds of IM were higher for cigarette use (OR = 2.54; 95% CI = 1.54- 4.1), use of pipes (OR = 3.09; [95% CI = 1.86-5.11]), and betel quid chewing (OR = 1.55; 95% CI = 1.10-2.17); and (3) these associations remained after multivariable adjustment for environmental tobacco smoke, malnutrition, ethnicity, religion, marital status, education, income, occupation, and urban/rural dwelling. In addition to finding the established association with cigarettes, we also found that maternal use of smokeless tobacco and pipes was associated with higher rates of infant death in Cambodia.

• 出版日期2013-9