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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)

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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.

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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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)