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. 1990 Jan;80(1):25–28. doi: 10.2105/ajph.80.1.25

Cocaine and the risk of low birth weight.

D B Petitti 1, C Coleman 1
PMCID: PMC1404546  PMID: 2293798

Abstract

In a population-based case-control study, we assessed the relation between cocaine use and the risk of low birth weight in Alameda County, California, excluding women who used heroin and/or methadone during pregnancy. After adjustment for confounders, the relative risk of low birth weight in users of cocaine throughout pregnancy was 4.0 (95% CI = 1.8, 8.9). Cocaine use was estimated to account for 10 percent of cases of low birth weight in Black women in Alameda County.

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