Smoking in pregnancy reduce good cholesterol in infants

Smoking in elembarazoreducecolesterolbueno in infants. Mothers who smoke during pregnancy cause changes in their babies, which may lead them to have less number of colesterolbueno that protects the heart, disease also had children born to mothers who had smoked levels under decolesterolHDL, to the children of mothers who had not consumed tobacco.

Elcolesterolllamado high density lipoprotein (HDL) plays a key role in the protection against atherosclerosis, which accumulate fatty material in the walls of the arteries, narrowing them and eventually blocking them, which leads to heart problems and strokes.

The tobacco during pregnancy prints a number of features little healthy babies, what predisposes futures to attacks heart or stroke, as the risk of heart disease between 10-15% more, as well as being linked to disorders of conduct, neurocognitivos and sudden death child.

The lower levels of HDL in children, could have a serious impact on the future health, given that children would continue probably having low that lipoprotein levels to grow, that cholesterol levels tend to keep from childhood to adulthood.

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