Maternal and paternal risk factors associated with diagnoses within the continuum of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the USA: Proximal and distal influences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to determine risk factors for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in the United States.

Method

Mothers of first-grade children participating in the Collaboration on FASD Prevalence (CoFASP) in three regional sites were interviewed. Maternal and paternal data were reported by mothers of children with an FASD diagnosis and controls.

Results

Interviews were conducted with mothers of children with an FASD (n = 114) and controls (n = 753). Fifty-seven percent of control mothers usually drank 2.7 drinks per drinking day (DDD) once per month prior to pregnancy, and 79% of mothers of children with FASD reported drinking 4.2 drinks 1-2 times per week. Mothers of children with alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder reported the most alcohol consump

SUBMITTER: May PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11747830 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature