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Title: Prenatal marijuana exposure tied to early hearing problems: urban, at-risk minority children.(Children's Health)
Author: Doug Brunk
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 15, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 34 Issue: 4 Page: 44(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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SEATTLE -- Children prenatally exposed to marijuana are two times more likely than unexposed children to rail a standard hearing test by age 7, Dr. Beth Nordstrom said at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.

In addition, children exposed to marijuana throughout pregnancy were nearly three times more likely to experience school-age hearing problems than children exposed to the drug around the time of conception only, said Dr. Nordstrom of Wayne State University, Detroit.