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Jakarta, Spasi-id.com - children are more likely to get asthma if their father was exposed to cigarette smoke when he was a child, according to a new study published in the European Respiratory Journal. Led by research University of Melbourne, Jiacheng Liu and Dr. Dinh Bui, this also shows that the risk of child asthma is even higher if their father is exposed to cigarette smoke and then smokers.
This study is based on the data from the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study, led by Professor Shyamu Dharmage of Melbourne University, one of the world's longest and longest respiratory studies, which began in 1968. For this study, researchers observed 1,689 children raised in Tasmania, along with their fathers and their grandparents from their fathers.
Tim compared data to whether children suffer from asthma at the age of seven with whether you grew up with parents who smoked when they were under 15. They also put in the data whether you were active or if you were a smoker.
"We found that the risk of non-allergic asthma in children increases by 59 percent if their father was exposed to cigarette smoke in childhood, compared to children whose father was not exposed," said Liu, quoted Labonline, Tuesday (20 / 9 / 2022).
Risk can be passed down to their grandchildren even if their children avoid smoking. But researchers were unable to determine how the damage was passed down from generation to generation.
There's a possibility that tobacco smoke creates epigenetic changes in cells that will continue to produce sperm when boys grow up. These changes can then be passed down to their children.
The researchers will now investigate whether the increase in asthma risk continues until adult life. And then whether a father was exposed to cigarette smoke as a child infects an increase in allergies or lung disease on their children.
