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DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
Volume 217, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108305
Keywords
Alcohol; Pregnancy; Adolescents; Offspring; Harmful use; The Raine Study
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Funding
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Curtin University
- Women and Infants Research Foundation
- Telethon Kids Institute
- Edith Cowan University
- Murdoch University
- University of Notre Dame Australia
- Raine Medical Research Foundation
- National Health and Medical Research Council [353514, 1099655, 1173991]
- Raine Study PhD Top-Up Scholarship
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1099655, 1173991] Funding Source: NHMRC
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Background: Epidemiological evidence suggests offspring exposed to prenatal alcohol are at increased risk of alcohol use disorders in adulthood. The evidence on the risk of developing harmful alcohol use in adolescence is less clear. Methods: We used data from the Raine Study, a multi-generational birth cohort study, to examine the association between prenatal alcohol exposure and the risk of harmful alcohol use in offspring at the age of 17 years. Log binomial regression was used to estimate the relative risks (RRs) of harmful alcohol use in offspring exposed to maternal alcohol use in the first (early) and third (late) trimesters of pregnancy. Maternal pre-pregnancy alcohol use was used as a negative control for intrauterine exposure for comparison. Results: Complete data were available for 1200 mother-offspring pairs. After adjustment for potential con-founders, we found increased RRs of harmful alcohol use in offspring born to mothers who consumed four or more standard drinks of alcohol per week during the first trimester [RR 1.45(95% CI: 1.08 1.93)], third trimester [RR 1.34 (95% CI: 1.04-1.72)] and during both trimesters of pregnancy [RR 1.86 (95% CI: 1.16 2.96)]. Maternal pre-pregnancy alcohol use was not associated with an increased risk of harmful alcohol use in offspring [RR 1.15 (95% CI: 0.89 1.48)]. Conclusion: Observed associations for maternal prenatal alcohol exposure but not maternal pre-pregnancy alcohol use suggests a biological mechanism for intrauterine alcohol exposure on the risk of harmful alcohol use in the offspring.
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