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A Brief History of Awareness of the Link Between Alcohol and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
28 May 2018
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OBJECTIVE: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a medical term used to describe a range of mental and physical disabilities caused by maternal alcohol consumption. The role of alcohol as a teratogen and its effects on the cellular growth of the embryo and the fetus were not determined on scientific grounds until the late 1960s. However, the link between alcohol use during pregnancy and its harms to offspring...
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