Smoking father, child with asthma
All content is checked by medical journalists.MunichCancer, COPD, asthma - who smokes, risks serious health consequences. But not only the own body suffers massively from the poisonous glow stalks: The offspring of men who smoke before pregnancy have a three times higher risk of asthma than the offspring of fathers who have never smoked. This is shown by a study presented by Norwegian researchers at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) congress.
Smoking behavior in the sights
Mothers and fathers who smoke during pregnancy harm the unborn child. But even men who quit smoking beforehand run the risk of their child suffering from asthma later on. This is what researchers around Dr. Cecile Svanes from the University of Bergen in Sweden in a study of 13,000 women and men. To establish a connection, all study participants completed a questionnaire and answered, among other things, when and how much they smoked in the last 20 years, how long before pregnancy they stopped and whether the offspring suffered from asthma.
Risk of asthma tripled
The result: the risk of asthma in children who had smoking fathers was higher the longer the men smoked before pregnancy. However, the connection was particularly serious in men who resorted to the glowing stick before the age of 15. They tripled the risk of their future children having asthma. And that regardless of whether you quit smoking before conception.
“These results show that young men in particular should be made more aware of the long-term harms of smoking and that they not only harm themselves but also their future children,” concludes Svanes.
Deadly glow stalk
In Germany around 140,000 people die every year as a result of smoking. In addition to cancer, lung diseases and cardiovascular diseases, the deadly steam is also blamed for impotence. The more than 250 toxins that a cigarette contains damage both the sperm itself and the steadfastness of the man. (jb)
Source: Svanes C. et al. Father's smoking prior to conception could increase asthma risk for baby. European Respiratory Society (ERS). 09/09/2014.
