Cocaine Found in Study of Newborns Tied to Mothers
<i> Reuters</i>
ATLANTA —
One of every 200 mothers who gave birth in Georgia during a two-month period in 1994 had used cocaine shortly before the delivery, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The CDC said tests of dried blood spots from 14,968 newborns found that 73, or almost 0.5%, had been exposed to cocaine in the womb. The CDC said maternal cocaine use during pregnancy can retard growth and cause early delivery, congenital anomalies and cerebral injury.
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