By:Tara Haelle
Babies of mothers with alcoholism much more likely to die in infancy
(dailyRx News) Alcohol and pregnancy don't mix. And neither does alcoholism and a baby's first year of life. Mothers who don't have alcohol problems are much more likely to see their babies grow up.
Those are the findings of a new study looking at risk factors for babies' deaths.
Mothers who had alcohol problems were much more likely to have a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than mothers without alcoholism. Babies of alcoholic mothers were also more likely to die from other causes.
The higher risk of death in the babies was true regardless of whether the mothers were drinking excessively during pregnancy or only after their child was born.
The study, led by Colleen M. O'Leary, MPH, PhD, of the Centre for Population Health Research at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, looked at whether mothers' use of alcohol played any part in the risk of their babies dying.
The researchers compared two groups of mothers for the study. One group of 21,841 mothers were alcoholics, based on meeting nine out of 10 symptoms for alcohol-use disorder from an international classification system.
These mothers were compared to 56,054 mothers who did not have an alcohol-related diagnosis but were similar to the alcoholic mothers based on their age, race/ethnicity and the year they had their children.
Among these two groups, a total of 303 babies died from (SIDS) and 598 babies died from other causes not related to SIDS.
The researchers found that the babies most likely to die from SIDS or other causes were those whose mothers had an alcoholism diagnosis while she was pregnant or within the baby's first year of life.
Babies of the mothers who were alcoholics while pregnant were about seven times more likely to die from SIDS than the babies of mothers without an alcohol-use disorder. These babies were also more than twice as likely to die from other causes besides SIDS.
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Babies of mothers with alcoholism much more likely to die in infancy
(dailyRx News) Alcohol and pregnancy don't mix. And neither does alcoholism and a baby's first year of life. Mothers who don't have alcohol problems are much more likely to see their babies grow up.
Those are the findings of a new study looking at risk factors for babies' deaths.
Mothers who had alcohol problems were much more likely to have a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than mothers without alcoholism. Babies of alcoholic mothers were also more likely to die from other causes.
The higher risk of death in the babies was true regardless of whether the mothers were drinking excessively during pregnancy or only after their child was born.
The study, led by Colleen M. O'Leary, MPH, PhD, of the Centre for Population Health Research at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, looked at whether mothers' use of alcohol played any part in the risk of their babies dying.
The researchers compared two groups of mothers for the study. One group of 21,841 mothers were alcoholics, based on meeting nine out of 10 symptoms for alcohol-use disorder from an international classification system.
These mothers were compared to 56,054 mothers who did not have an alcohol-related diagnosis but were similar to the alcoholic mothers based on their age, race/ethnicity and the year they had their children.
Among these two groups, a total of 303 babies died from (SIDS) and 598 babies died from other causes not related to SIDS.
The researchers found that the babies most likely to die from SIDS or other causes were those whose mothers had an alcoholism diagnosis while she was pregnant or within the baby's first year of life.
Babies of the mothers who were alcoholics while pregnant were about seven times more likely to die from SIDS than the babies of mothers without an alcohol-use disorder. These babies were also more than twice as likely to die from other causes besides SIDS.
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