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By decreasing their exposure to alcohol and smoking pregnant women can lower the risk for preterm birth and placental abruption two conditions responsible for many infant deaths in South Africa Odendaal said

For instance, in a 2016 retrospective cohort study involving 6822 women in New Zealand, women with more than one risk factor (body mass index (BMI) and weight change outside recommendations, smoking, alcohol consumption or physical activity below recommendations) had higher odds of: caesarean birth (OR = 2.03 for two risk factors and OR = 2.86 for three risk factors), pre-term birth (OR = 2.87 with two or three risk factors), a small for gestational age infant (OR = 2.39 for two risk factors and OR = 6.24 for three risk factors), and a low birth weight infant (OR = 2.24 for two risk factors and OR = 3.86 for three risk factors), compared to women with no risk factors [3]

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The study was done in collaboration with the Boston Childrens Hospital and Harvard University in Boston Columbia University in New York the University of South Dakota in Vermillion the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and a data collection and analysis centre in Boston