Smoke in the Womb Means Asthma Later.Maternal smoking during pregnancy increases the rate of asthma in children, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission study that looked at lifetime tobacco smoke exposure histories of 5,762 fourth-, seventh-, and tenth-grade students in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . The report, published in the February 2001 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, states that the probability of physician-diagnosed asthma for children exposed to tobacco smoke in utero in utero (in u´ter-o) [L.] within the uterus. in u·ter·o adj. In the uterus. in utero adv. via maternal smoking was 1.8-fold higher than for children with no exposure. The investigators remark that elimination of fetal exposure to maternal smoking could prevent an estimated 5-15% of childhood asthma cases. |
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