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Title: | Maternal cell phone use in early pregnancy and child's language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years: the Norwegian mother and child cohort study (MoBa) |
Author: | Papadopoulou, Eleni Haugen, Margaretha Schjolberg, Synnve Magnus, Per Brunborg, Gunnar Vrijheid, Martine Alexander, Jan |
Keywords: | Estudi de casos Aprenentatge motor Case studies Motor learning |
Issue Date: | 5-Sep-2017 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Abstract: | BACKGROUND: Cell phone use during pregnancy is a public health concern. We investigated the association between maternal cell phone use in pregnancy and child's language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years. METHODS: This prospective study includes 45,389 mother-child pairs, participants of the MoBa, recruited at mid-pregnancy from 1999 to 2008. Maternal frequency of cell phone use in early pregnancy and child language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years, were assessed by questionnaires. Logistic regression was used to estimate the associations. RESULTS: No cell phone use in early pregnancy was reported by 9.8% of women, while 39%, 46.9% and 4.3% of the women were categorized as low, medium and high cell phone users. Children of cell phone user mothers had 17% (OR = 0.83, 95% CI: 0.77, 0.89) lower adjusted risk of having low sentence complexity at 3 years, compared to children of non-users. The risk was 13%, 22% and 29% lower by low, medium and high maternal cell phone use. Additionally, children of cell phone users had lower risk of low motor skills score at 3 years, compared to children of non-users, but this association was not found at 5 years. We found no association between maternal cell phone use and low communication skills. CONCLUSIONS: We reported a decreased risk of low language and motor skills at three years in relation to prenatal cell phone use, which might be explained by enhanced maternal-child interaction among cell phone users. No evidence of adverse neurodevelopmental effects of prenatal cell phone use was reported. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4672-2 |
It is part of: | BMC Public Health, 2017, vol. 17, num. 1, p. 685 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/116228 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4672-2 |
ISSN: | 1471-2458 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE |
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