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© 1995 Medical Council on Alcohol

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MODERATE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND SPONTANEOUS ABORTION

FRANCO CAVALLO*, ROBERTO RUSSO, CARLA ZOTTI, ANNA CAMERLENGO and ANGELA MOIRAGHI RUGGENINI

Department of Hygiene and Community Medicine, University of Turin Via Santena 5-bis, 10126 Torino, Italy

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed

Received 18 April 1994; first review notified 12 July 1994; accepted 26 July 1994

A prospective study was carried out on 546 women interviewed during pregnancy about their drinking habits, in order to evaluate the association between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and spontaneous abortion. Pregnancy outcome (normal or abortion) was analysed as a dependent variable in a multivariate model where different levels of drinking were taken into consideration as independent-effect variables. A significant increase in the risk of abortion was observed in the 30 + age category and in the higher parity category; no significant trend was evidenced for alcoholic variables, even after controlling for the other potentially confounding variables. The possible underestimation of alcohol consumption, due to reluctance in declaring real consumption by the women interviewed, is discussed. It is concluded that, on the basis of these and other data reported in the literature, a low level of alcohol consumption during pregnancy does not appear to be a significant risk for abortion.


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