Highlights:
– direct evidence of a link between prenatal vitamin A deficiency and postnatal airway hyper responsiveness, a hallmark of asthma
– “Researchers have long wondered what makes some people more susceptible than others to developing asthma symptoms when exposed to the same stimulus,”
-which is that adverse fetal exposures that cause subtle changes in developing organs can have lifelong consequences.”
* published online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation FEB 2014
http://healthresearchreport.me/2014/02/14/prenatal-vitamin-a-deficiency-tied-to-postnatal-asthma/
