Avoid Coffee To Protect Your Fetus's Heart

Prenatal

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By Staff

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 9:54

Avoid coffee to be able to protect your fetus's heart. According to Scott Rivkees, Yale's Associate Chair of Pediatric Research and a senior researcher on the study, "Our studies raise potential concerns about caffeine exposure during very early pregnancy, but further studies are necessary to evaluate caffeine's safety during pregnancy."

The study revealed that one dose of caffeine was enough to affect fetal heart development and then reduce heart function over the entire lifespan of the child as an adult. The experiment carried out on mice showed that relatively minimal amount of exposure may lead to higher body fat among males, when compared to those who were not exposed to caffeine.

Four different groups of pregnant mice were observed, The first two groups were studied in "room air," with one group having been injected with caffeine and another injected with saline solution. The second two groups were studied under conditions where ambient oxygen levels were halved, with one group receiving caffeine and the other receiving saline solution.

It was discovered that, mice given caffeine produced embryos with a thinner layer of tissue separating some of the heart's chambers than the group that was not given caffeine. The mice born under such conditions were than studied through out their adult lives for any long term affects of caffeine. It was concluded that all the adult mice exposed to caffeine as fetus had an increase in body fat of about 20 percent, and decreased cardiac function of 35 percent when compared to mice not exposed to caffeine

To be able to protect your child from heart related problems be sure to sacrifice your daily cup of coffee. AGENCIES