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Article: Skip Caffeine, Pregnant Women Told
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 22, 1993
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If those long, tiring days of pregnancy aren't hard enough,
doctors may soon be issuing stricter warnings against that last
vestige of pep: caffeine.
Gone are the glasses of wine and cigarettes. And the latest
study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
supports the contention that as few as two cups of coffee a day - or
the equivalent found in cola, tea and chocolate - increases the
chance of a miscarriage.
Other studies have linked caffeine to growth retardation in
human and animal fetuses.
"This is an exposure we can control," said Brenda Eskenazi,
associate professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology at
the University of California, Berkeley. ...