ArticleAmerican journal of public health1995
Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure and psychomotor development at preschool age.
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- Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on cognitive and behavioral development: Findings from a hierarchical meta-analysis of data from six prospective longitudinal U.S. cohorts.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Pooled it
- Role of maternal alcohol intake during pregnancy in early-life child neurodevelopment: results of the Italian PHIME cohort.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2025Article
- Association between prenatal alcohol exposure and children's facial shape: a prospective population-based cohort study.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- The Early Developmental Outcomes of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: A Review.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Review
- A Qualitative Study of Substance use during Pregnancy: Implications for Reproductive Healthcare in Western Kenya.African journal of reproductive health · 2016Article
- Predicting changes in language skills between 2 and 3 years in the EDEN mother-child cohort.PeerJ · 2014Article
- Alcohol, smoking, and drug use among Inuit women of childbearing age during pregnancy and the risk to children.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2011Article
- Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids at birth and cognitive function at 7 y of age.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2003Article
- ["Inadvertent" use of alcohol-containing tonics in pregnancy].Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983) · 1997Article
- Dose-response analyses of women's alcohol use during pregnancy and children's cognitive functioning.American journal of public health · 1997Article
- Alcohol and the young.Archives of disease in childhood · 1996Review
- Research on the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure--a new direction.American journal of public health · 1995Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study investigated the effect of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on psychomotor development of preschool-age children in a longitudinal study.
methodsPregnant women were interviewed about their alcohol consumption at their first visit to the maternity hospital in Roubaix, France. Alcohol consumption before pregnancy and during the first trimester was assessed with a structured questionnaire. The psychomotor development of 155 children of these women was assessed with the McCarthy scales of children's abilities when the children were about 4 1/2 years old.
resultsConsumption of 1.5 oz of absolute alcohol (approximately three drinks) or more per day during pregnancy was significantly related to a decrease of 7 points in the mean score on the general cognitive index of the McCarthy scales, after gender, birth order, maternal education, score for family stimulation, family status, maternal employment, child's age at examination, and examiner were controlled for.
conclusionsThis study showed that moderate to heavy alcohol consumption during pregnancy, at levels well below those associated with fetal alcohol syndrome, has effects on children's psychomotor development.
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