Prospective parents—but especially dads—might be wise to avoid too much alcohol, according to a new study out this week. It suggests that women and men who binge drink in the months before conception are more likely to have children with congenital heart defects, with the father’s alcohol consumption surprisingly having a greater impact on the future child’s heart health. The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, is a review of the existing research looking at the link between parental drinking and congenital heart disease in newborns, the most common type of birth defect. While pregnant women have long been told to avoid drinking, there’s been considerably less attention paid to whether a father’s drinking can affect the quality of his sperm and subsequently the health of his child. As expected, the researchers did find a clear connection between reported drinking in mothers pre-conception as well as during pregnancy and the likelihood of their children being born with heart disease. But the highest associated risks were actually seen with fathers. The risk of any heart defect was 55 percent higher for a child if their father was a regular binge drinker in the three months before conception (compared… Read full this story
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