{"id":1454,"date":"2026-02-26T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/having-parents-who-smoked-increases-risk-of-pediatric-ms-study\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:00:32","slug":"having-parents-who-smoked-increases-risk-of-pediatric-ms-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/having-parents-who-smoked-increases-risk-of-pediatric-ms-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Having parents who smoked increases risk of pediatric MS: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/02\/26\/parents-smoked-increases-risk-pediatric-ms-study\/\" title=\"Having parents who smoked increases risk of pediatric MS: Study\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/iStock-143917321-800x595.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A child wearing a gas mask sites between a woman and man in 1950s attire who are smoking a cigarette and a pipe, respectively.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"159659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having parents who have ever smoked cigarettes, or who smoked in the three months before pregnancy, is associated with a significantly increased likelihood of childhood-onset multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a small study in Italy. The findings suggest that early-life exposure to cigarette smoke, including around the time of conception, may influence a child\u2019s risk [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/02\/26\/parents-smoked-increases-risk-pediatric-ms-study\/\">Having parents who smoked increases risk of pediatric MS: Study<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/02\/26\/parents-smoked-increases-risk-pediatric-ms-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having parents who have ever smoked cigarettes, or who smoked in the three months before pregnancy, is associated with a significantly increased likelihood of childhood-onset multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a small study in Italy. The findings suggest that early-life exposure to cigarette smoke, including around the time of conception, may influence a child\u2019s risk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}