The SEATON Study - University of Aberdeen

Doctors at Aberdeen University are looking at how a mum's diet during pregnancy affects the chances of children developing asthma and allergies. In 1997/8 they recruited a large number of pregnant mums attending the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital to the SEATON study:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/seatonstudy

The doctors have shown that children whose mothers had high intakes of vitamin E during pregnancy had less asthma and allergies at 5 years. They are about to start the 10 year follow up of the children and are hoping to show that the links with diet seen in early life carry on into later childhood. The doctors are not looking for new recruits and will only be contacting mums who originally took part in the study in 1997/8. So if you have helped in this study before please look out for a SEATON Study letter in the near future.