Maternal consumption of pulque, a traditional central Mexican alcoholic beverage: relationships to infant growth and development

To document the consumption during pregnancy of pulque, a traditional central Mexican alcoholic beverage, and its relationship to subsequent infant size, physical growth and performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. Prospective cohort study. Six villages in rural, central Mexico in 198...

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Published in:Public health nutrition 2001-08, Vol.4 (4), p.883-891
Main Authors: Backstrand, Jeffrey R, Allen, Lindsay H, Martinez, Eulalia, Pelto, Gretel H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Alcohol
Alcohol Drinking - adverse effects
Alcoholic beverages
Anthropometry
Babies
Beverages
Child development
Child Development - drug effects
Cognition - drug effects
Cohort analysis
Cohort Studies
Collaboration
Developing countries
Embryonic and Fetal Development - drug effects
Ethanol
Ethanol - administration & dosage
Ethanol - adverse effects
Female
Growth
Health promotion
Households
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn - growth & development
Infants
LDCs
Maternal-Fetal Exchange - physiology
Mexico
Nutrition
Pregnancy
Prospective Studies
Psychomotor Performance
Public health
Rural areas
Rural Health
Womens health
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Summary:To document the consumption during pregnancy of pulque, a traditional central Mexican alcoholic beverage, and its relationship to subsequent infant size, physical growth and performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. Prospective cohort study. Six villages in rural, central Mexico in 1984-1985. Seventy mother-infant pairs. Most women (72.9%) consumed pulque during pregnancy, and 28.6% consumed more than 150 g ethanol week(-1) from the beverage. Individuals who consumed pulque showed no compensating decrease in energy obtained from other foods. Pulque consumption possessed curvilinear relationships with both infant length (at 1 and 6 months) and Bayley mental performance (at 6 months). Heavy pulque intakes were associated with smaller infant size and poorer mental performance. In modest quantities, pulque consumption may have been beneficial due to its micronutrient content. Intakes of alcohol from pulque were common among pregnant women in these rural, central Mexican villages. Given current scientific knowledge of the adverse effects of ethanol on foetal development, public health interventions are needed to reduce heavy pulque consumption during pregnancy in some areas of rural Mexico.
ISSN:1368-9800
1475-2727
DOI:10.1079/PHN2001130