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Smoking when pregnant harms grandchildren

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Smoking during pregnancy can have detrimental effects on women and the fetus, but perhaps also for their future offspring. Specifically, for the grandchildren of the smoker, as revealed by the first analysis of the risks of trans cigarettes was carried out in Spain.

Snuff that is involved in a high percentage of tumors that are diagnosed in adulthood is beyond doubt. However, the role of nicotine in pediatric cancer is more controversial. To investigate this issue, a group of researchers from the Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Virgen de la Arrixaca and Hospital of Madrid, the capital, have for years made an analysis on the influence of exposure to snuff over three generations .

The study, published in April in the journal ‘Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health’ , evaluated data from 128 children with cancer born between 2001 and 2005 and as many healthy children as control group were compared. The researchers, led by Dr. Juan Antonio Ortega, the Environmental Health Unit Pediatric carefully collected data on the consumption of snuff from their mothers and grandmothers , and other environmental factors could be involved in its diagnosis.

“It’s the first time in humans, studies of childhood cancer, wondered if the grandmothers or grandfathers smoked and the degree of exposure during pregnancy grandmothers,” explains Dr. ELMUNDO.es Ortega, “there are studies in experimental animals and so we jump. “

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