Alcohol in breast milk may lead to lower cognition in kids, study finds
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Numbers of women drinking during pregnancy are higher than expected. One in 10 pregnant women reported drinking in the previous 30 days, with more than 3% reporting to binge, in a 2015 report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The CDC estimates that millions more women in the US are exposing babies to alcohol during development by not realizing they are pregnant.
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A CDC report found that 3.3 million women were putting their fetus at risk by drinking alcohol while sexually active and not practicing birth control.
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Rates of drinking have been found to be as high as 80% during pregnancy in Ireland and between 40% to 80% in the UK, Australia and New Zealand in other studies.
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Exposure to alcohol in the womb is one of the leading preventable causes of intellectual disability in children along with a range of physical, behavioral and intellectual disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
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Five levels of disorder fall within the spectrum starting with the milder fetal alcohol effects and building up to alcohol-related birth defects, alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder, partial fetal alcohol syndrome and then the worst of them all, fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Globally, rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are thought to be 1% to 2% of all birth defects. South Africa tops