Asthmatic children: Did mom use her pump during pregnancy?

Expectant mothers who eschew asthma treatment during pregnancy heighten the risk transmitting the condition to their offspring, according to one of the largest studies of its kind published in the European Respiratory Journal. A research team from the Universite de Montreal, the Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal and Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre found that 32.6 percent of children born to mothers who neglected to treat their asthma during pregnancy developed the respiratory illness themselves...

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