How maternal smoking or nicotine use increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in later life
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 03:00
in Health & Medicine
Scientists now understand more about why being exposed to nicotine while you were a fetus will increase your risk of developing cardiovascular disease as an adult. "We have found distinct links between cigarette smoking or even using nicotine patches or gum and the long-term harm for the child," says Dr. DaLiao Xiao, a scientist who works at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California.