Thursday 7 August 2014

Stress During Pregnancy can be Passed Down Through Generations, Says Study

A new study published in BMC Medicine finds pregnancies in four generations of rats show that inherited epigenetic effects of stress could affect pregnancies for generations. Researchers from the University of Lethbridge in Canada wanted to investigate how preterm births are influenced by stress. Preterm birth is one of the leading causes of neonatal death and can lead to health problems later in life. They examined the length of pregnancies in rats because ...

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