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Maternal and grandmaternal smoking patterns

Maternal and grandmaternal smoking patterns are associated with early childhood asthma This US study showed that, relative to children of never-smoking mothers, children whose mothers smoked throughout the pregnancy had an elevated risk of asthma in the first five years of life. Children of mothers who quit smoking prior to the pregnancy showed no increased risk. Grandmaternal smoking during the mother's fetal period was associated with increased asthma risk in her grandchildren.

Grandmaternal smoking during the mother's fetal period was associated with increased asthma risk in her grandchildren.

Yu-Fen Li and others. Chest (American College of Chest Physicians) 127 (4): 1232-1241. April 2005. Abstract: www.medscape.com

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