Asthma in pregnancy leads to lower birthweight girls.

Australian Doctor,  September, 2005  

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by Cathy Saunders

MATERNAL asthma in pregnancy has different effects on male and female babies, according to an Australian researcher.

Dr Vicki Clifton (PhD) researcher at the Mothers and Babies Research Centre at the Hunter Medical Research Institute in NSW, said female babies born to women with asthma in pregnancy were often smaller, but male babies tended to escape growth restriction unless the pregnant woman had a severe asthma exacerbation.

For the past seven years, Dr Clifton's research group has prospectively studied more than 450 women from their first antenatal ...

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