Associations of prenatal maternal smoking with offspring hyperactivity: causal or confounded?

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BACKGROUND: The relationship between prenatal tobacco exposure and hyperactivity remains controversial. To mitigate limitations of prior studies, we used a strategy involving comparison of maternal and paternal smoking reports in a historical sample where smoking during pregnancy was common. METHOD: Data were drawn from a longitudinally followed subsample of the Child Health and Development Study (n = 1752), a...

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