Maternal Alcohol Use and Nutrition During Pregnancy: Diet and Anthropometry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite known risks of prenatal nutritional deficiencies and studies documenting increased prevalence of poor dietary intake among nonpregnant alcohol abusers, the nutritional status of heavy drinking pregnant women remains largely unstudied. Animal models have found interactions between prenatal ethanol exposure and micronutrients, such as choline, folate, B12, and iron, and human studies have reported that lower maternal weight and body mass confer increased fetal alcohol-related risk.

Methods

One hundred and twenty-three heavy drinking Cape Coloured pregnant women and 83 abstaining controls were recruited at their first antenatal clinic visit. At 3 prenatal study visits, each gravida was interviewed about alcohol, smoking, and drug use and weight, height, and a

SUBMITTER: Carter RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9297192 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature