Just one cigarette a day in pregnancy can spur death risk for baby

Just one cigarette a day during pregnancy can double the risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), warned a study. SUID is defined as sudden and unexpected death of a baby below one year of age, in which the cause is not obvious before investigation. 

For women, who smoked an average of 1-20 cigarettes a day, the odds of SUID increased by 0.07 with each additional cigarette, according to the study.

"With this information, doctors can better counsel pregnant women about their smoking habits, knowing that the number of cigarettes smoked daily during pregnancy significantly increase the risk of SUID," said lead author of the study. 

"We hope to advise women about this risk will result in fewer babies dying from these tragic causes."
Women who reduced smoking by the third trimester saw a 12 per cent decrease in SUID risk. 

Quitting smoking was associated with a 23 per cent reduction in the risk.

"The most important takeaway is for women to understand that quitting smoking before and during pregnancy by far results in the greatest reduction in the SUID risk," she said. 

For the study, the team used computational modelling techniques to analyse maternal cigarette smoking habits for about 20 million births in the US. The analysis also showed mothers who smoked three months before pregnancy and quit in the first trimester still had a higher risk of SUID compared with non-smokers. The data supports public health efforts aimed at encouraging women to quit smoking well before pregnancy, he said.
  

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With more sexual partners you may double the risk of prostrate cancer

The more sexual partners a man has may double his risk of developing prostrate cancer, a study has claimed. The study found that men who had more than seven sexual partners in their lifetime were twice as likely to have prostate cancer than those with fewer than three partners. Men who are sexually active earlier may also be a risk, the researchers said. ‘The more partners you had, the more orgasms you had, the younger you were when you first had sex, all pointed to an increased prostate cancer risk,’ Visalini Nair-Shalliker, doctoral student at Cancer Council New South Wales in Australia, was quoted as saying to smh.com.au. It’s believed this increased risk associated with sexual activity could be due to hormonal changes. Sexual activity and metabolism were associated with antigen, a male sex hormone that is also strongly linked to the initiation of prostate cancer.

Other risk factors included having a father with a history of prostate cancer, a previous diagnosis of prostatitis or benign prostatic hyperplasia. In addition, the study found that being overweight or obese was also associated with increased risk of the disease, but to a lesser extent. There was no association found between prostate cancer risk and circumcision, vasectomy or erectile function, the researchers observed. It is important to identify risk factors so men could be given advice, and men aged over 50 who fell into those risk categories should speak to their doctors, especially if they had a family history of the disease, Nair-Shalliker said. However, ‘we can’t make any recommendations around sexual activity because it’s multi-faceted. We’re not saying ‘increase or decrease your sexual activity’ because the evidence is still grey about that,’ Nair-Shalliker noted, in the paper published in the journal in the International Journal of Cancer. 

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