Question

An ectopic pregnancy is twice as likely to develop when the pregnant woman is a smoker as it is when she is not a smoker. In 2019, 16.5% of women of childbearing age were smokers. What proportin of women having ectopic pregnancies were smokers in 2019

Answer 1

The multivariate results showed a strong relationship between smoking and ectopic pregnancy risk: Compared with women who had never smoked, those who had smoked in the past had 50% higher odds of ectopic pregnancy (odds ratio, 1.5); the differential was larger for current smokers and climbed as the number of cigarettes.

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