Low Dose Of Caffeine When Pregnant May Damage Heart Of Offspring For A Lifetime
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 23:21
in Health & Medicine
The equivalent of one dose of caffeine (just two cups of coffee) ingested during pregnancy may be enough to affect fetal heart development and then reduce heart function over the entire lifespan of the child. The study was in mice, but the biological cause and effect described in the research paper is plausible in humans.