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Is Your Child’s Bone Health at Risk?
Does smoking during pregnancy make children’s bones more fragile?
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Is Your Child’s Bone Health at Risk?
A group of researchers, led by Professor Emil Kääntä, decided to explore a troubling question: Does smoking during pregnancy make children’s bones more fragile?
The scientists gathered data from over 220,000 children born between 1987 and 1990. These children, now grown, have their health records carefully stored in Finnish medical databases.
The researchers wanted to see if there was a link between mothers who smoked during pregnancy and the number of bone fractures their children experienced as they grew up.
This team explored whether adding a special ingredient to the diets of weaned piglets could improve their growth and health outcomes. The ingredient? Dietary protease, an enzyme that breaks down proteins, making them easier to digest.
The results were startling. They found that children aged 5 to 15 years, whose mothers smoked while pregnant, had a higher risk of breaking bones. This was not a small increase – these children were 12% more likely to suffer fractures.
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