According to the results of the latest study, published recently in the latest issue of the authoritative medical journal Plos ONE, it was found that drinking alcohol during pregnancy, even in very minimal amounts, can seriously harm the level of intelligence of an unborn child..

Conducting this study is due to the fact that recently the guiding principles of medicine in a number of European countries in this area have undergone major changes..

If earlier any alcoholic drink was considered extremely negative for the fetus, now some scientists say that a couple of glasses of wine a week can even be beneficial for the health of a newborn baby.. The new study was the first to use an analysis of genetic variation, and as a result, it refutes such assumptions in the bud..

The study involved a total of 4167 children born at 8 years of age who participated at that time in another study in which scientists had accurate data on whether their mothers drank alcohol during the gestation process, and if so, how much. 4 Genetic Variations Responsible for the Body's Assimilation of Alcohol Have Been Discovered. Genetic analysis made it possible to completely eliminate the impact of any supporters of factors, such as lifestyle and other bad habits, on the level of IQ.

As a result, it was found that in the group of mothers who consumed even the minimum amount of alcohol during pregnancy, the decrease in the IQ of their children was recorded at the level of 10-15 points, which turned out to be even more significant than scientists initially assumed..

However, mothers who consumed more than a couple of glasses of wine per week during pregnancy were excluded from this study.. Scientists note that it would be interesting to conduct a similar analysis with their participation, which also uses the study of genetic modifications.. It is possible that the harm to the IQ of the child here will also be greater than previously thought..

Yuri Shustov nedug. en.