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. 2026 Feb 17;153(7):536-539.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.125.076520. Epub 2026 Feb 16.

Association of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy With Childhood Blood Pressure and Hypertension in the ECHO Cohort

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Association of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy With Childhood Blood Pressure and Hypertension in the ECHO Cohort

Lyndsey E Shorey-Kendrick et al. Circulation. .
No abstract available

Keywords: blood pressure; hypertension; maternal smoking in pregnancy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Ladd-Acosta reports consulting fees from the University of Iowa for providing expertise on autism epigenetics, outside the scope of this work. Dr Weiss reports honoraria from UpToDate and is on the board of Histolix, a digital pathology company. The other authors report no conflicts.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Summary of association of MSDP with childhood blood pressure (BP: both systolic [SBP] and diastolic [DBP]) or hypertension in the ECHO Cohort.
Effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals are shown on the x-axis (• unadjusted; ▲ adjusted for child race, maternal age at delivery, maternal pre-pregnancy BMI category, prenatal alcohol exposure, maternal education level, and child sex [hypertension models only]; ■ additionally adjusted for preterm birth). The top panel represents the effects of any MSDP ascertained via self-reported questionnaire or medical record in the total study population. The middle panel represents the effects of any MSDP in the subset of subjects with cotinine data. The bottom panel represents the effects of active smoking based on urine cotinine measured during the index pregnancy (no exposure: ≤1.6 ng/mL vs. active smoking: ≥75 ng/mL).

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