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Association between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and risks of congenital heart defects in offspring: meta-analysis of epidemiological observational studies

Overview of attention for article published in Italian Journal of Pediatrics, February 2016
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Title
Association between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and risks of congenital heart defects in offspring: meta-analysis of epidemiological observational studies
Published in
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13052-016-0222-2
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Zhongyuan Wen, Di Yu, Weiyan Zhang, Changfeng Fan, Liang Hu, Yu Feng, Lei Yang, Zeyu Wu, Runsen Chen, Ke-jie Yin, Xuming Mo

Abstract

To explore the association between maternal alcohol consumption and/or binge drinking and congenital heart defects (CHDs), we conducted a meta-analysis for more sufficient evidence on this issue. We searched Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library from their inceptions to December 2014 for case-control and cohort studies that assessed the association between maternal alcohol consumption and CHD risk. Study-specific relative risk estimates were calculated using random-effect or fixed-effect models. A total of 19 case-control studies and 4 cohort studies were included in the meta-analysis. We observed a null association between maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the risk of CHDs. Even in the analysis of different trimesters of pregnancy, we found little association between the two. This meta-analysis suggests that maternal alcohol consumption is modestly not associated with the risk of CHDs. However, further investigation is needed to confirm this conclusion.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 52 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 13 25%
Student > Master 11 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 10%
Researcher 4 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 11 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 33%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 8%
Social Sciences 4 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 13 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 June 2016.
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#4,835,823
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Italian Journal of Pediatrics
#180
of 1,059 outputs
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#77,552
of 405,854 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Italian Journal of Pediatrics
#5
of 17 outputs
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