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"Crack Kids" Revisited

Barry Zuckerman, MD; Deborah A. Frank, MD; Linda Mayes, MD

JAMA. 2002;287:1990-1991.

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In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Singer and colleagues¹ report the findings from their prospective cohort study assessing the relationship between prenatal cocaine exposure and cognitive and developmental outcomes in 218 cocaine-exposed infants and 197 unexposed infants. After controlling for prenatal exposure to other drugs, gestational age and size at birth, and a number of caregiver characteristics, the authors found that infants who had in utero cocaine exposure scored on average 6 points lower than the comparison group on the Mental Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development² at 24 months of age. Rates of clinically important developmental delay on the scale were doubled in the cocaine-exposed group compared with the unexposed group (13.7% vs 7.1%, respectively).

The study by Singer et al is the only 1 of 10 peer-reviewed,³ adequately controlled, large-scale, prospective longitudinal studies to show an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass (Drs Zuckerman and Frank); and Department of Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn (Dr Mayes).

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