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Women who suffer from low iron levels in pregnancy are much more likely to have a baby with heart disease, experts have found ...

Scientists have found that pregnant women low in iron are more likely to have a baby with a deadly heart defect. The “game changer” discovery has sparked urgent trials to see if taking iron ...

Babies born to mothers with low iron levels are far more likely to suffer heart defects, 'game-changing' research has revealed. Scientists now estimate that anaemia in pregnant women may be to ...

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Women who suffer from low iron levels in pregnancy are much more likely to have a baby with heart disease, experts have found in a “gamechanger” discovery. For the first time, researchers have ...

Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, clinical director at the British Heart Foundation and consultant cardiologist, said: "If low iron turns out to be one of the culprits, then replenishing iron levels during early ...