The health risk of women and her baby occurs just being around cigarette smoke.
The study published in Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease refers that the daughters of mothers who smoked during pregnancy were between two and three times more prone to develop adult diabetes and if the one who smoked was the father, the risk also increased, although to a lesser extent.
"Our results are consistent with the idea that the gestational exposure to chemical substances of the environment can have health effects," said Michele La Merrill, lead author of the work in information disseminated by the University of California.
"We have found that parents' smoking is in itself a risk factor for diabetes, independent of obesity or birth weight," because if one of the parents smokes, the baby is not protected against diabetes just becauseBe thin, the Merrill emphasized.
The conclusions of the research are based on the analysis of the data of 1,800 daughters of women who participated in the Children's Health and Health Studies, a project of the US Public Health Institute.Women who sought obstetric attention were recruited through the Kaiser Foundation in the San Francisco Bay area between 1959 and 1967. As the data were originally collected to study the early risk of breast cancer, the breast cancer, themale children.
In previous studies, fetal exposure to cigarette smoke has also been linked to higher rates of obesity and low birth weight, but this work found that birth weight did not affect whether the daughters of smoking parents developed diabetes.
According to the Women's Health Office in the US Department of Health and Human Services, when the nicotine and cancer -generating substances are passed to the baby during pregnancy.
Smoking also prevents the baby from receiving the nutrients it needs.