A mother’s exposure to air pollution during pregnancy can increase asthma risk in her adult offspring, according to a new mouse study published at the ATS 2025 International Conference.

Niu Z, Ako AA, Geiger SD, et al. Maternal cardiometabolic risk factors in pregnancy and offspring blood pressure at age 2 to 18 years. JAMA Netw Open . 2025;8(5):e259205. doi:10.1001 ...

FRIDAY, Feb. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Women with epilepsy may have offspring with decreased bone metabolism and lower birth weight, according to a study published online Feb. 3 in the Annals ...

Children born to mothers with rheumatoid arthritis have an increased risk for chronic diseases, including thyroid disease, epilepsy and rheumatoid arthritis, during childhood and adolescence ...

Maternal influenza infection in pregnancy tied to seizures in offspring Sep 24, 2024 Increased risk of dying during pregnancy for women with epilepsy calls for improved care ...

Yi-Feng Lee, MD, from Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, and colleagues examined the association between maternal influenza infection and risk for childhood seizures in a cohort study ...

Yi-Feng Lee, M.D., from Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, and colleagues examined the association between maternal influenza infection and risk for childhood seizures in a cohort study ...

Maternal smoking has adverse effects on offspring health including pre-term delivery (Stock and Bauld, 2020; Liu et al., 2020), stillbirth (Marufu et al., 2015), and low birth weight (Ventura et al., ...

We analyzed peer-reviewed epidemiological studies that examined the relationship between maternal exposure to ASMs during pregnancy and the subsequent risk of ASD or ADHD in offspring. A study was ...

Neurology > Seizures Creativity Not Influenced by Maternal Epilepsy — Prenatal exposure to high doses of anti-seizure drugs may influence executive function, however ...

New research has found that prior studies showing high and rising rates of maternal mortality in the United States are due to flawed data. The maternal mortality crisis in the U.S. has shown high ...