Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like.

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like.

tiredofsametab@kbin.run · 4 months ago

My mom quit smoking before pregnancy, and dad never smoked. Still neurodivergent. I’ve not personally heard of a causal link there before.

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260151/

tiredofsametab@kbin.run · 3 months ago

Thanks, but, uh:

CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring ADHD is not due to causal intrauterine effects, but reflects unmeasured confounding.