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Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Quantification of Social Behavior in Adult Rats
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Fetal alcohol syndrome. A great paediatric imitator
The Medical Journal of Australia
|March 19, 1983
Abstract:
Twenty children affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol are described. Their mothers either suffered from chronic alcoholism, or were binge or heavy drinkers while pregnant. Only in nine mothers (45%) was alcohol abuse recognized and associated with their babies' anomalies in the first months after birth; in some, the diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome was delayed for many years. Alcohol abuse in pregnancy is probably a significant cause of birth and developmental defects in Australian children.
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