Smoking around your young son could raise the risk of asthma for your future grandchildren EuropeanLung
is even higher if their father was exposed to secondhand smoke and went on to become a smoker.
The research was led by Mr. Jiacheng Liu and Dr. Dinh Bui from the University of Melbourne, Australia. It was based on data from the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study , led by Professor Shyamali Dharmage. TAHS began in 1968 and is one of the world's largest and longest ongoing respiratory studies. Liu said,"We found that the risk of non-allergic asthma in children increases by 59% if their fathers were exposed to secondhand smoke in childhood, compared to children whose fathers were not exposed. The risk was even higher, at 72%, if the fathers were exposed to secondhand smoke and went on to smoke themselves."
Professor Dharmage said,"We can't be certain of how this damage is passed on through generations, but we think it may be to do with epigenetic changes. This is where factors in our environment, such as tobacco smoke, interact with our
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