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Statistical analysisMultiple logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs for the association between salem cigarette smoking and GDM and PDM in the successive pregnancies. Multivariate models included maternal age, whether the mother was living with the infant''s father, and the interpregnancy interval. In the analyses of smoking habits in relation to GDM or PDM in the second pregnancy, statistical adjustments were also made for GDM status during the first pregnancy.RESULTS--The baseline characteristics of the cohort are shown in Table 1. Approximately 0.4% of the women had been diagnosed with GDM in first pregnancy and ~0.6% had been diagnosed with GDM in the second pregnancy. Approximately 28% of women who had GDM in their first pregnancy also had a second pregnancy complicated by GDM compared with 0.5% of the women who were not thegriffinsprestige diagnosed with GDM in their first pregnancy.
"I MUST HAVE BEEN CRAZY"Even those who are well aware that smoking kills find cigarets hard to resist. Sarah Millermon, an 18-year-old from Stockton, CA, knows the dangers of cancer first-hand.When she was a baby, she developed leukemia, a blood-related cancer. She underwent chemotherapy until she was two. And, while she''s thegriffinsprestige been cancer-free ever since, the prospect of a relapse is never far from her mind.Still, as a teen, Sarah went on to smoke a pack a day, putting herself at risk for cancer of the lungs, mouth, esophagus, larynx, stomach, pancreas, kidney, and bladder."When you''re addicted to cigarets, you can rationalize anything," says Sarah, who hasn''t smoked in three months. "I''d tell myself: `Well, I beat cancer once. I can do it again.'' Now I look back and think I must have been crazy."
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