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asthma-in-infantsWomen who suffer stress during pregnancy may deliver a child with asthma, according to the researchers.

The findings suggest that 16 percent of the asthmatic children were being delivered by the mother who suffered stress during the pregnancy and those without the condition have very low ratio of the asthmatic children.

Lead researcher, John Henderson, said: “this could happen when body naturally react against the stress and produce some hormonal changes which my affect the developing infant and immunity system in the womb that may express themselves in the later age.


postpartum_depressionMediocre diabetic women, who are whether expecting or delivered a baby, have the doubled risk of developing depression compared to the women without diabetes, a new study found.

No matter either the women have developed diabetes during or before the pregnancy or depending on insulin or oral hypoglycemic drugs. The high risk of depression still exists in the diabetic women.

“Diabetic have the double risk of depression during and after the pregnancy,” the study’s lead author, Katy Backes Kozhimannil said.

Even those women who had been never complaint for depression also appear at risk. Ten percent of the women, with no prior indications of the depression develop it right after delivery.


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