When parents smoke, their kids may face a higher risk of a common heart rhythm problem decades later, a new study suggests.
Much less is known about whether
For every pack of cigarettes parents smoked per day, their children's risk of eventually developing a-fib rose by 18%, the investigators found. Plus, Marcus explained, the pulmonary vein, which shuttles blood from the lungs to the heart, is known to be important in a-fib. So it's not"far-fetched," he said, that toxic substances inhaled into the lungs -- even secondhand -- could have some effect on the atria."It's still possible that much of this association, or even all of it, is explained by higher rates of smoking among [adult children] themselves," he said.
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