While women who take vitamin E during pregnancy seem to lower their offspring’s risk of asthma in early childhood, intake of vitamin C may actually raise the risk, according to a recent study by Scottish researchers. Several reports have linked vitamin E with an apparent protective effect. By contrast, the vitamin C finding is novel and runs counter to previous reports that suggest, at the very least, no effect and possibly a reduced risk of asthma, the investigators report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
