Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy are more likely to have higher BMI and waist circumference in early adulthood than those whose mothers did not smoke during pregnancy, a Queensland study shows.
In a study of more than 2000 young adults in Brisbane, researchers at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, investigated the prospective association of maternal smoking during pregnancy with young adult cardiovascular risk factors.
Their findings, published in PLOS One, showed that the offspring of mothers who smoked during pregnancy had greater mean BMI, waist circumference and pulse rate and they were at greater risk of being obese at 21 years compared to offspring of those mothers who never smoked.
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