Liver Disease is increased in babies of pregnant mothers who drink too much caffeine

Pregnant mothers who take too much caffeinated drinks could be damaging the livers of their babies.

Too much coffee drinking by pregnant mothers has been linked to impaired liver development in babies (whilst in the womb) and then increases risk of liver disease in adulthood.

This was the outcome of clinical research work published in the journal of Endocrinology. More work needs to be done to establish causal relationships. However, it is postulated that the mechanism of damage is due to altered stress and growth hormone productions as a response to caffeine.

There seems to be a dose response proportionality of this problem, as the observational study found that if caffeine is consumed at an equivalent amount of 2-3cups/day, there results commensurate higher incidence of liver disease risk.

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