Association Between Prolonged Maternal Smokeless Tobacco Use and Pregnancy Outcome
Association Between Prolonged Maternal Smokeless Tobacco Use and Pregnancy Outcome
About one third of the adults in the world including increasing number of women (250 million) daily smoke (22% in developed world & 9% of women in developing world). Approximately 28% women in Bangladesh use smokeless tobacco (ST). The incidence of adverse pregnancy outcome including spontaneous abortion,stillbirth,preterm delivery and giving birth to low birth weight baby (lbw) are quite high in Bangladesh. Tobacco is a preventable cause of maternal and neonatal mortality.This review article intended to find out any association between prolonged maternal smokeless tobacco use and pregnancy outcome. We reviewed various national & international research papers, thesis papers and articles about smokeless tobacco use and pregnancy outcome. It can be concluded that prolonged use of smokeless tobacco have significant association and risk with spontaneous abortion,stillbirth,preterm delivery and LBW baby.

