Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in a South African City with a Predominantly Black African Population

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1016-1026

  Urban, Michael F ^a   Olivier, Leana ^a,b   Viljoen, Denis ^a,b   Lombard, Chanelle ^a,b   Louw, Jacobus G ^b   Drotsky, Lian Marie ^b   Temmerman, Marleen ^c   Chersich, Matthew F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b Foundation for Alcohol Related Research (FARR)   (South Africa)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Ethnicity; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Prevalence; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLACK AFRICAN; BLACK PERSON; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MOTHER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; ROODEPAN; SOCIAL WORK; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBSTANCE USE; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; URBAN AREA; ADULT; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84930504018     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12726     Document Type: Article

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