Drinking during pregnancy decreases word attack and arithmetic scores on standardized tests: adolescent data from a population-based prospective study.
Alcohol Clin Exp Res
; 18(2): 248-54, 1994 Apr.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8048722
Women (1529) were interviewed in midpregnancy, and a cohort of their children has been examined at various ages. The two standardized tests presented herein are part of a large battery of tests administered when the children were 14 years old. "Word Attack" (n = 462) measures phonological processing on a task involving the reading of pseudowords in nontimed performance. "Arithmetic" (n = 191) measures auditorily processed mental computations in timed performance. Scores on both tests were associated with prenatal alcohol exposure in a dose-dependent fashion. These effects were robust when considered in relation to a wide variety of potentially confounding variables, such as prenatal exposure to tobacco and other drugs, sociodemographic characteristics, and traumatic postnatal events. A variety of alcohol scores were related to these two performance measures, but those involving a massing of drinks on a given occasion had the strongest association. The higher the average number of drinks/occasion, the poorer the offspring performance on tasks thought to underlie numerical problem solving and reading proficiency. Earlier reports of prenatal, alcohol-related neurobehavioral deficits in childhood have now been extended into adolescence.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Lectura
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Trastornos del Espectro Alcohólico Fetal
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Discapacidades para el Aprendizaje
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Matemática
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Alcohol Clin Exp Res
Año:
1994
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido