Childhood asthma linked to high maternal sugar intake during pregnancy
December 8, 2017
Kate Bass BSc
New research published today in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society reports that children born to mothers who drank a lot of sugary drinks during pregnancy may be at an increased risk of developing asthma during childhood.
With the increasing prevalence of childhood asthma since the 1980s, there has been a concerted effort to identify factors that could be the cause of the observed rise in the number of children developing asthma. Since caloric intake from added sugars, most notably in sugary drinks, has also increased over this time frame, researchers have been evaluating whether there is a link between the two.
It is already known that obesity, for which excessive sugar intake is a causal factor, is a risk factor for developing asthma but there are also indications that high levels of fructose can directly impact lung function by causing inflammation.
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