ArticleMaternal and child health journal2013
Older not wiser: risk of prenatal alcohol use by maternal age.
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- What Do We Know About Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Nigeria? A Narrative Review.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and the Development of Multiple Risk Behaviors in Adolescence: A Birth Cohort Study.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Alcohol use during pregnancy: the impact of social determinants of health on alcohol consumption among pregnant women.Biology of sex differences · 2025Article
- The Importance of Intimate Partner Violence in Within-Relationship and Between-Person Risk for Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Maternal Age and Trajectories of Risky Alcohol Use: A Prospective Study.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2017Article
- Socioeconomic Inequality in Concurrent Tobacco and Alcohol ConsumptionAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2017Article
- Concurrent Trajectories of Female Drinking and Smoking Behaviors Throughout Transitions to Pregnancy and Early Parenthood.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Article
- Adverse Environmental Exposures During Gestation and Childhood: Predictors of Adolescent Drinking.Substance use & misuse · 2016Article
- Maternal Alcohol Consumption During the Perinatal and Early Parenting Period: A Longitudinal Analysis.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Maternal patterns of postpartum alcohol consumption by age: a longitudinal analysis of adult urban mothers.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Article
- Growth Models of Maternal Smoking Behavior: Individual and Contextual Factors.Substance use & misuse · 2015Article
- Associations between multivitamin supplement use and alcohol consumption before pregnancy: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2004 to 2008.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2013Article
- Prevalence of alcohol use before and during pregnancy and predictors of drinking during pregnancy: a cross sectional study in Sweden.BMC public health · 2013Article
- The Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Alcohol Use during Pregnancy in a Representative Sample of Adult Women.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
- Prenatal alcohol and other early childhood adverse exposures: Direct and indirect pathways to adolescent drinking.Neurotoxicology and teratologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
High levels of alcohol use among pregnant women have been associated with a spectrum of birth defects. Greater maternal age has been related to an increased risk of drinking during pregnancy. Although the context, process, and outcomes of pregnancy and alcohol use vary by maternal age, no studies have examined predictors of prenatal drinking by age. This study addresses this gap by examining potential risk factors associated with prenatal alcohol use (any versus none) by maternal age (<20, 20-25, 26-34, and 35 years or older). Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were completed on survey data from 9,004 pregnant women from the north central U.S. Descriptive statistics revealed teens in general had a higher level or greater occurrence of risk factors previously identified with prenatal drinking compared to older women, yet women of advanced maternal age (35 years or older) were most likely to drink alcohol during pregnancy. Based on the regression by age, 20-25 year old women had the greatest number of significant risk factors associated with prenatal drinking including being employed, white, unmarried, first birth, smoking prenatally, greater levels of depressed mood, and more experiences related to alcohol abuse. The number and patterns of significant predictors of drinking alcohol while pregnant by age encourage greater investigation of other social, contextual factors that might contribute to the risk of prenatal drinking. This is especially salient for women of advanced maternal age, for whom very few significant predictors emerged.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.