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Amid a rising rate of cannabis use disorder (CUD) among women in California, their babies seem to be experiencing more adverse outcomes than mothers who do not have CUD.
Prenatal CUD “appears to be associated with escalated odds of major adverse neonatal outcomes,” states the study abstract.
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The retrospective study out of the University of California San Diego (UCSD), funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, considered 4.8 million mothers who delivered live, single births in the state between 2001 and 2012, according to UCSD. Of the records reviewed, investigators identified 20,237 women with a CUD diagnosis who were discharged following delivery.
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