ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health1984
Alcohol consumption and outcome of pregnancy.
Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 1984. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prenatal alcohol exposure and associations with physical size, dysmorphology and neurodevelopment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Dose-response relationship between alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy and the risks of low birthweight, preterm birth and small for gestational age (SGA)-a systematic review and meta-analyses.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2011Pooled it
- Reported social alcohol consumption during pregnancy and infants' development at 18 months.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1991Trial
- Prenatal alcohol exposure, birthweight, and measures of child size from birth to age 14 years.American journal of public health · 1994Article
- Cigarette, alcohol, and coffee consumption and prematurity.American journal of public health · 1992Article
- Confounding variables in studying the effects of maternal alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1989Article
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Abstract
In a prospective study 1256 pregnant women at their first antenatal visit were asked if they drank alcohol every day, occasionally, or not at all, both at that time and before the diagnosis of pregnancy. There were no significant differences, among the three alcohol groups, in the proportions having miscarriages, perinatal deaths, congenital anomalies, or premature births. Women who reported drinking every day before pregnancy was diagnosed had heavier babies than those who did not drink at all, but there were no differences in mean birth weight according to alcohol use at the first antenatal visit. There were statistically significant differences among the three groups in important background characteristics, such as social class, age, smoking, and marital status. When adjustment was made for these factors, both occasional and daily consumption of alcohol before pregnancy appeared to have significantly positive effects on birth weight. These results illustrate the difficulty of evaluating the effects of alcohol in observational studies, and imply a need for caution in attributing either negative or positive effects of alcohol on the outcome of pregnancy.
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