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Grossesse
Un verre ou deux, pas plus!
Mise à jour le mercredi 6 octobre 2010 à 21 h 35

Boire un peu d'alcool chaque semaine pendant la grossesse n'a aucune incidence sur le développement de l'enfant, montre une étude britannique menée sur 11 513 enfants.

Les travaux de la Dre Yvonne Kelly et de collègues de l'University College London montrent en effet que la consommation d'un ou deux verres de vin par semaine durant une grossesse n'a pas d'effet négatif sur le comportement ou le développement intellectuel des enfants, et ce, de la naissance à leur cinquième anniversaire.

Une étude publiée en 2008 par la même équipe avait donné des résultats similaires sur trois ans. Les chercheurs voulaient s'assurer que la consommation d'alcool n'avait pas d'effet à plus long terme sur le développement des enfants.

Les présents résultats confirment par ailleurs qu'une consommation excessive (plus de 7 verres) peut entraîner l'hyperactivité chez les enfants ou des problèmes d'ordre comportemental et affectif.

Le détail de ces travaux est publié dans le Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

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http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2010/09/13/jech.2009.103002

J Epidemiol Community Health doi:10.1136/jech.2009.103002

Research report
Light drinking during pregnancy: still no increased risk for socioemotional difficulties or cognitive deficits at 5 years of age?

Yvonne J Kelly1,
Amanda Sacker2,
Ron Gray3,
John Kelly1,
Dieter Wolke4,
Jenny Head1,
Maria A Quigley3
+ Author Affiliations

1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
2Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, Colchester, UK
3National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK
4Department of Psychology and Health Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Correspondence to Dr Yvonne Kelly, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1–19 Torrington Place, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; y.kelly@ucl.ac.uk
Accepted 25 June 2010
Published Online First 5 October 2010
Abstract
Background This study examines the relationship between light drinking during pregnancy and the risk of socioemotional problems and cognitive deficits at age 5 years.

Methods Data from the nationally representative prospective UK Millennium Cohort Study (N=11?513) were used. Participants were grouped according to mothers' reported alcohol consumption during pregnancy: never drinker; not in pregnancy; light; moderate; heavy/binge. At age 5 years the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) and British ability scales (BAS) tests were administered during home interviews. Defined clinically relevant cut-offs on the SDQ and standardised scores for the BAS subscales were used.

Results Boys and girls born to light drinkers were less likely to have high total difficulties (for boys 6.6% vs 9.6%, OR=0.67, for girls 4.3% vs 6.2%, OR=0.69) and hyperactivity (for boys 10.1% vs 13.4%, OR=0.73, for girls 5.5% vs 7.6%, OR=0.71) scores compared with those born to mothers in the not-in-pregnancy group. These differences were attenuated on adjustment for confounding and mediating factors. Boys and girls born to light drinkers had higher mean cognitive test scores compared with those born to mothers in the not-in-pregnancy group: for boys, naming vocabulary (58 vs 55), picture similarities (56 vs 55) and pattern construction (52 vs 50), for girls naming vocabulary (58 vs 56) and pattern construction (53 vs 52). Differences remained statistically significant for boys in naming vocabulary and picture similarities.

Conclusions At age 5 years cohort members born to mothers who drank up to 1–2 drinks per week or per occasion during pregnancy were not at increased risk of clinically relevant behavioural difficulties or cognitive deficits compared with children of mothers in the not-in-pregnancy group.