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Miscarriage risk increases if parents smoked
Author: Health News31.08.2007
"Children of smokers can experience very high levels of secondhand smoke exposure at home, in the family car, and in other locations."
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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. Read more