title: [Alcohol in pregnancy].
abstract: In 1978, an investigation on alcohol consumption by women, before and during pregnancy, was carried out at Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Medical Faculty in Novi Sad. This investigation studied 350 women during their stay in the hospital, after delivery and their newborns regarding birth weight, prematurity, stillbirths, operative interventions for delivery (vacuum extraction, Caesarean section, vaginal breech) and hormonal therapy during pregnancy. Ten years later, in 1988, at the same clinic, a similar investigation took place within the framework of the "Drugs and Pregnancy" project of the WHO Regional Bureau for Europe which included the study of 297 women and their newborns (average birth weight and Apgar-score study). Newborns whose mothers had been drinking before and during pregnancy had lower birth weight and length compared to the newborns whose mothers had never consumed alcohol, but these differences are not of statistical significance (X2 = 2.504; X2 = 0.922). There is no statistical significance either in the incidence of prematurity (X2 = 0.461) or in the incidence of operative interventions during delivery (X2 = 0.632). The stillbirth rate was significantly higher with a 4.3% incidence (p less than 0.05) in women consuming alcohol in contrast to the non-alcohol consumption group (0.5%). More women who had been drinking before and during pregnancy had been receiving hormonal therapy during pregnancy (X2 = 8.195 p less than 0.01). Nowadays, more women drink alcohol (60.6%) than ten years ago (48%) (X2 = 13.874 p less than 0.01). Also, nowadays more women drink during pregnancy (47.5%), than in 1978 - 27.7% (X2 = 26.979 p less than 0.01).
authors.affiliation: Medicinski fakultet, Klinika za ginekologiju i akuserstvo, Novi Sad.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kapamadzija
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horvat
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome
vernacular_title: Alkohol u trudnoći.