Maternal risk factors for fetal alcohol syndrome in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: A population-based study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1190-1199

  May, Philip A ^a   Gossage, J Phillip ^a   Brooke, Lesley E ^b   Snell, Cudore L ^c   Marais, Anna Susan ^b   Hendricks, Loretta S ^b   Croxford, Julie A ^d   Viljoen, Denis L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 21144446793     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.037093     Document Type: Article

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