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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah

Women should give up vaping if they want to get pregnant, study suggests

A woman vaping
Nearly a quarter of women in the study who were trying to conceive said they regularly or occasionally vaped. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Women should give up vaping if they are hoping to get pregnant, according to a study that suggests it may affect fertility.

In the first research to demonstrate a link between fertility prospects and electronic cigarettes across a large population, analysis of blood samples from 8,340 women revealed that people who vape or smoke tobacco had lower levels of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), which indicates how many eggs women have left in their ovaries.

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