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BACKGROUND: To examine the effect of maternal smoking in pregnancy on the production of two eicosanoids, thromboxane A(2) and prostacyclin I2, and their role in the pathogenesis of intrauterine growth restriction.METHODS: Prospective case control study enrolled smoking and non-smoking women at ≤14 weeks gestation. Maternal urine samples were obtained at ≤14, 28 and 36 weeks. High performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS) was used to quantify 11-dehydrothromboxane B(2) (TX-M) and 2,3 dinor-6-ketoprostaglandin F1α (PG-M), stable urinary metabolites of thromboxane A(2) and prostacyclin I2. Confirmation of the smoking status was performed by quantitation of urinary nicotine metabolites. Data was analysed using SPSS and Stata(®).RESULTS: Thirty five were enrolled in the smoking group and 32 in the non-smoking group. Smoking resulted higher levels of TX-M at ≤14, 28 and 36 weeks gestation. There was no difference in PG-M at any gestational time point between the two groups. The median customised birthweight centile in the smoking group was 17.0 (0-78) compared to 55.5 (4-100) in the non-smoking group (P<0.001). A causal relationship between elevated TX-M and IUGR could not be established.CONCLUSIONS: Maternal smoking in pregnancy is associated with altered eicosanoid production in favour of the vasoconstrictor thromboxane A(2) which occurs early in the first trimester.
Author(s): Lynch CM, O'Kelly R, Stuart B, Treumann A, Conroy R, Regan CL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators
Year: 2011
Volume: 95
Issue: 1-4
Pages: 63-67
Print publication date: 23/06/2011
ISSN (print): 1098-8823
ISSN (electronic): 2212-196X
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prostaglandins.2011.06.007
DOI: 10.1016/j.prostaglandins.2011.06.007
PubMed id: 21723954
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