Despite the adverse effects of smoking on the fetus often campaigned for many, it turns out about 10 percent of pregnant women in the United States still smoke during pregnancy.
Researchers from the University of Durham in England Nadja Reissland conducted a study to examine the development of the fetus in the mother smokers in America. It uses ultrasound images with a high degree of sharpness in his research, as reported by the Huffington Post on Tuesday (24/3).
The study Reissland can make pregnant women think twice to continue smoking. Reissland shows cigarettes can alter the mouth and hand movements of the fetus. In addition, other findings also revealed a number of disorders of the central nervous system development in the fetus.
"If we show the video fetal developmental disorders to mothers smokers, they tend to quit smoking," said Reissland.
Not only Reissland, a number of researchers from the University of Durham and Lancaster in the UK also analyzed the ultrasound image 80 of 20 fetuses aged 24 to 36 weeks. The analysis was carried out to observe the movement of the mouth and hands.
Of the 20 fetuses, four fetus is a fetus of a mother who has a habit of smoking up to 14 cigarettes per day. While the other fetus is a fetus of mothers who did not smoke.
The researchers looked at fetuses whose mothers smoked mouth movements more frequently than normal fetal habits. They hypothesize, when the fetus is exposed to nicotine, the central nervous system that control facial movements such as the fetus does not develop normally. These effects also occur in fetuses whose mothers have symptoms of stress or depression.
"But the effects of nicotine exposure is much worse," said Reissland.
Researchers from the University of Durham in England Nadja Reissland conducted a study to examine the development of the fetus in the mother smokers in America. It uses ultrasound images with a high degree of sharpness in his research, as reported by the Huffington Post on Tuesday (24/3).
The study Reissland can make pregnant women think twice to continue smoking. Reissland shows cigarettes can alter the mouth and hand movements of the fetus. In addition, other findings also revealed a number of disorders of the central nervous system development in the fetus.
"If we show the video fetal developmental disorders to mothers smokers, they tend to quit smoking," said Reissland.
Not only Reissland, a number of researchers from the University of Durham and Lancaster in the UK also analyzed the ultrasound image 80 of 20 fetuses aged 24 to 36 weeks. The analysis was carried out to observe the movement of the mouth and hands.
Of the 20 fetuses, four fetus is a fetus of a mother who has a habit of smoking up to 14 cigarettes per day. While the other fetus is a fetus of mothers who did not smoke.
The researchers looked at fetuses whose mothers smoked mouth movements more frequently than normal fetal habits. They hypothesize, when the fetus is exposed to nicotine, the central nervous system that control facial movements such as the fetus does not develop normally. These effects also occur in fetuses whose mothers have symptoms of stress or depression.
"But the effects of nicotine exposure is much worse," said Reissland.
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