Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: What Pediatric Providers Need to Know—Continuing Education Posttest
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: What Pediatric Providers Need to Know.
Prenatal alcohol exposure is the cause of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), the prevalence of which is similar to that of other developmental disabilities like Down syndrome and autism. Children, adolescents, and adults who live with the disabilities associated with prenatal alcohol exposure face extraordinary challenges throughout their lives. Pediatric providers need to be able to ide...
متن کاملFetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Prenatal exposure to alcohol can damage the developing fetus and is the leading preventable cause of birth defects and intellectual and neurodevelopmental disabilities. In 1973, fetal alcohol syndrome was first described as a specific cluster of birth defects resulting from alcohol exposure in utero. Subsequently, research unequivocally revealed that prenatal alcohol exposure causes a broad ran...
متن کاملFetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Forty years ago, alcohol was not commonly recognized as a teratogen, an agent that can disrupt the development of a fetus. Today, we understand that prenatal alcohol exposure induces a variety of adverse effects on physical, neurological, and behavioral development. Research supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has contributed to the identification of the ...
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Objective: To conduct a combined analysis of the estimated effects of maternal average weekly alcohol consumption, and any binge drinking, in early to mid pregnancy on general intelligence, attention, and executive function in 5-year-old children. Design: Follow-up study. Setting: Neuropsychological testing in four Danish cities 2003–2008. Population: A cohort of 1628 women and their children s...
متن کاملFetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (fasd)
Establishing a unique neurobehavioural profile for people exposed to alcohol in utero would be a tremendous aid in diagnosis, treatment planning and epidemiological research. Epidemiological studies of fetal alcohol syndrome have shown that only one?third of the babies born to mothers who drank heavily during pregnancy presented with full-blown FAS. 2 Moreover, the majority of people who were e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pediatric Health Care
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0891-5245
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2017.04.004