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Descendents of Women Who Smoked While Pregnant Are More Likely to Develop Asthma
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have found that children are twice as likely to develop asthma if their grandmothers
smoked during pregnancy, and more than two-and-a-half times as likely if both their mothers and their grandmothers smoked. "The findings
suggest that smoking could have a longer-lasting impact on families' health than we had ever realized," said the study's senior author,
Frank D. Gilliland, professor of preventive medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine. The study is based on interviews with parents and guardians
of 908 in Southern California. Findings were published in the April 2005 issue of the journal Chest. Read the full story at:
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/11194.html
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