Miscarriage risk for mom
if her parents smoked:
Secondhand smoke exposure hikes complications by 80%
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 Epidimology.
