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Miscarriage risk increases if parents smoked |
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Friday, 31 August 2007 |
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Women who were exposed to their parents' smoking as children may have a higher likelihood of suffering a miscarriage, new research suggests.
In a study of nearly 2,200 non-smoking pregnant women, researchers found that those exposed to their parents' secondhand smoke during childhood were 80 percent more likely to have a miscarriage compared with women whose parents didn't smoke.
The findings appear in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Full report: Reuters
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