Still smoking while pregnant? Vitamin C may help your kids' lungs

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Smoking during your pregnancy is known to have detrimental effects on your offspring, but US researchers say taking vitamin C might decrease the effects on your kids' airways. The researchers provided pregnant smokers with a 500mg a day of vitamin C or a placebo, and followed up with their kids at age 5. They found the kids of the mums given the supplemental vitamin C had better lung function than those given the placebo. Additionally, the kids of this group that were also given vitamin C had significantly decreased wheeze - a common issue for kids of mums that smoked during their pregnancy.

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conference: JAMAPediatrics

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Organisation/s: Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Funder: This work was supported by grants R01HL105447 and R01HL105460 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), with cofunding by grants P51OD011092565 and UH3OD023288 from the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) (Drs McEvoy, Spindel, and Morris). Additional support from the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute was funded by grant UL1TR000128 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

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