Infant Obesity, Mother Smokers
Children born to mothers smoking in early pregnancy are at risk of overweight. During the research, there is no scientific explanation, but there is one theory that children of smoking mothers will experience a disruption in the body since metebolisme in the womb.
Same results found in children whose mothers had no breakfast habits during pregnancy and probably more at risk of obesity.
The study lasted for two decades, which is chaired Professor of the Faculty of Medicine University of Yamanashi Yamagata Zentaro. Approximately 1400 pregnant women in Japan who gave birth in April 1991 and March 1997.
Researchers took subjects approximately 1,000 children aged nine smpai ten years. In the study found, the children were born to pregnant women since three months of pregnancy or in early pregnancy compared to children born of mothers did not smoke.
“The results of this study showed an indication of smoking during pregnancy, although at the beginning or during pregnancy will affect infant health conditions throughout their lives,” Yamagata said.
Then, researchers speculated that as long as the fetus in the womb of nutritional deficiencies, but will store nutrients until she was born. “However, this research still needs to be proved further. Is it necessary to stop smoking,” he said.
There are several studies in the world to know aantara meroko during pregnancy and obesity in children. However, research in the same group. This condition will rarely encountered in children aged yanag more than ten years.