Women who drink large amounts of coffee during pregnancy double their risk of
stillbirth compared with women who do not drinkany coffee. In a
prospective study of 18 478 singleton pregnancies,Wisborg and
colleagues (p
420) evaluated the risk of stillbirthand infant death associated
with coffee consumption during pregnancy.Adjusting for several
potential confounders (smoking, alcoholuse, maternal age, among
others), they found that women who drankeight or more cups of coffee
a day during their pregnancy hadan increased risk of stillbirth, but
not of infant death. Previousstudies have associated high doses of
caffeine with spontaneousabortion and low birth weight in humans,
and with stillbirth inmonkeys.
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