Prevent cancer on fetal, maternal smokers should consume vitamin C
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Results of research conducted on 159 women showed that taking vitamin C during pregnancy can protect baby's lungs, although their mothers smokers. Researchers found that babies born to women smokers who took vitamin C had lung function better than women smokers who took the placebo.
During the first year, 21 percent of babies born to mothers who take vitamin C smokers experience shortness of breath, compared to 40 percent of babies born to mothers who took the placebo.
Researchers also found that about 22 percent of babies born to mothers who took the placebo require medication for shortness of breath, while in women who take vitamin C is only 13 percent, as reported by U.S. News.
"Vitamin C is a safe and inexpensive supplements that can reduce the effects of smoking on the respiratory health of the fetus during pregnancy and after birth," said lead researcher Dr. Cynthia McEvoy of Oregon Health & Science University Children's Hospital.
Although this study shows a link between vitamin C intake with lung disease in children of smoking mothers, however, researchers confirmed that the study does not prove a causal relationship.
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