(Reuters Health) – Asthma attacks during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of complications for mothers and their babies, a Canadian study suggests. Asthma attacks during pregnancy were rare, even though all of the study participants had asthma. Similarly, preterm births occurred in 8.2% of pregnancies involving asthma attacks compared with 6.7% of other pregnancies. And, 6.2% of babies had birth defects in pregnancies involving asthma attacks, compared with 5% of infants born to mothers who didn’t have asthma attacks during pregnancy. Children were also 23% more likely to develop asthma in early childhood when mothers had asthma attacks during pregnancy.

Source: National Post December 03, 2019 21:11 UTC