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Monday, May 5, 2008

French moms-to-be ignorant of alcohol risk
May 5, 2008

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France, May 5 (UPI) -- More than 52 percent of pregnant French women drink alcohol during their pregnancies, a study found.

The study, published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, found most of those women were uninformed about the risks to their babies' health.

"Our results surprised us because we didn't think that the women were so massively going to answer that they were so ignorant of the dangers of alcohol during pregnancy," study leader Ingrid de Chazeron of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Clermont-Ferrand, France, said in a statement. De Chazeron said the percentage of U.S. moms-to-be having a drink a day is much less -- about 12 percent.
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