ArticleCurrent research in toxicology2022
The influence of maternal weight and alcohol exposure on infant physical characteristics and neurodevelopmental outcomes.
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- FASD Science and Policy Depend on Deeply Phenotyped Prospective Birth Cohorts.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Maternal overweight/obesity and yoghurt supplementation from early pregnancy to postpartum augments infant gut microbiota.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Clinical Features of Typically Developing Children with and without Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Maternal and paternal risk factors associated with diagnoses within the continuum of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the USA: Proximal and distal influences.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders prevention and clinical guidelines research - workshop report.BMC proceedings · 2024Article
- Contribution of ferritin and zinc to adverse infant outcomes among pregnancies with prenatal alcohol exposure in South Africa.Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Unveiling the hidden risk: paternal smoking and alcohol exposure prior to conception as independent factors for allergic rhinitis in children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Multifaceted case management during pregnancy is associated with better child outcomes and less fetal alcohol syndrome.Annals of medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Mothers of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders tend to have lower weight compared to other mothers. Yet how alcohol and maternal weight may predispose infants to poorer physical growth and neurodevelopmental trajectories is relatively unexplained. Methods: South African mothers ( Results: Postpartum maternal weight was positively associated with birth length, weight, and head circumference centile, but the rate of growth from birth to nine months was similar among all infants. Maternal weight was inversely associated with dysmorphology. Many infants in this population were performing within the borderline or extremely low range. Higher maternal weight was associated with significantly better cognitive and motor performance at 6 weeks; however, the rate of developmental growth was similar among all infants, regardless of postpartum maternal weight. Conclusion: Higher postpartum maternal weight may be a protective factor but does not eliminate the adverse effects of alcohol on infant growth and dysmorphology. Regardless of maternal weight, alcohol remains a powerful teratogen and moderate to high use prenatally can result in adverse infant physical and neurocognitive development.
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