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Fertility and Offspring of Alcoholic Women: An Unsuccessful Search for the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Author(s) -
Bark Nigel
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1979.tb02411.x
Subject(s) - offspring , fertility , pregnancy , medicine , obstetrics , depression (economics) , psychiatry , fetal alcohol syndrome , fetus , pediatrics , psychology , population , genetics , environmental health , macroeconomics , economics , biology
Summary Forty married women in a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis of alcoholism were interviewed to obtain details of their pregnancies and outcome of pregnancies with particular reference to spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, deaths, mental handicap and congenital abnormalities. Forty controls matched by age and with a diagnosis of endogenous depression were also interviewed. No significant differences were found in the fertility, outcome of pregnancy or state of the children. The probable reasons for this are discussed briefly and the introduction contains a review of some of the literature on the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.