CIGARETTE-SMOKING AND LIPIDS AND LIPOPROTEINS IN CORD PLASMA

The effects of smoking on maternal and cord plasma lipid and lipoprote in levels were measured in 40 smoker mothers and their newborns and co mpared to nonsmokers. Significantly higher levels of total cholesterol , low density lipoprotein cholesterol and very low density lipoprotein cholesterol and lower levels of high density lipoprotein cholesterol were found in smoker mothers and their newborns in comparison to nonsm okers. These results suggest that smoking does not affect only the lip ids and lipoproteins of pregnant women but also those of their fetuses .