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UK: Fathers who smoke dope 'double risk of cot death'
The Guardian
Thursday 30 Aug 2001 Fathers who smoke dope could be doubling their children's risk of cot death, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, claim. In their study, comparing the parents of 239 babies who died from sudden infant death syndrome (Sids) with those of healthy children, Phung Lam-Kruglick and Hilary Klonoff-Cohen found that cot death risk doubled when fathers took cannabis, regardless of whether they smoked the drug around conception, during pregnancy or after birth. However, the study did not reveal a risk increase linked to mothers using cannabis. The researchers believe this might be because so few women in the study smoked cannabis. Why cannabis should raise the risk of Sids was not clear. But the cannabis compound tetrahydrocannabinol is said to resemble a body chemical called anandamide, which affects sperm and embryos. But Ed Mitchell, a cot death authority at Auckland University, New Zealand, said: "The problem is maternal tobacco smoking when pregnant."
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