title: Low to moderate alcohol intake during pregnancy and risk of psychomotor deficits.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To examine the effects of low to moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy on child motor function at age 5.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective follow-up study of 685 women and their children sampled from the Danish National Birth Cohort based on maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy. At 5 years of age, the children were tested with the "Movement Assessment Battery for Children" (MABC). Parental education, maternal IQ, prenatal maternal smoking, the child's age at testing, and gender of child were considered core confounders, while the full model also controlled for prenatal maternal binge drinking episodes, age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index, parity, home environment, postnatal parental smoking, health status, and indicators for hearing and vision impairment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were no systematic or significant differences in motor function between children of mothers reporting low to moderate levels of average alcohol consumption during pregnancy and children of mothers who abstained.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this study, we found no systematic association between low to moderate maternal alcohol intake during pregnancy and child motor function at age 5.
authors: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark. bjornbay@me.com
authors: Bjørn
authors: B
authors: Bay
authors: Henrik
authors: H
authors: Støvring
authors: Theresa
authors: T
authors: Wimberley
authors: Clark H
authors: CH
authors: Denny
authors: Erik L
authors: EL
authors: Mortensen
authors: Hanne-Lise F
authors: HL
authors: Eriksen
authors: Ulrik S
authors: US
authors: Kesmodel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants / Q000633:toxicity*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D000431:Ethanol / Q000633:toxicity*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced*
chemical_list: D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants; D000431:Ethanol