Early life secondhand smoke exposure assessed by hair nicotine biomarker may reduce children's neurodevelopment at 2 years of age

• Main Authors: Mohamed, Nur Nadia, Loy, See Ling, Lim, Poh Ying, Al Mamun, Abdullah, Jan Mohamed, Hamid Jan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72356/1/Early%20life%20secondhand%20smoke%20exposure%20assessed%20by%20hair%20nicotine%20biomarker%20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72356/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717320284

Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) can affect fetal brain development as well as subsequent neurodevelopment. This study aimed to determine the association between prenatal and postnatal SHS exposure with children's neurodevelopment at 2 years of age. Among 107 mother-child pairs from a Malaysi...