Alcoholic Beverages During Pregnancy

The consumption of alcoholic beverages during pregnancy and low birth weight of the baby as a result of poor sleep quality and increased risk of sleep disorders in children under eight years: it is the result of a study by Finnish researchers conducted the University of Helsinki and published in Sleep , the journal of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies'.

Were testing 289 children prematurely subjected born between March and November 1998: the duration and quality of sleep was measured with actigrafi and evaluated by means of questionnaires that they parents who reported a decreased respiratory and subjected restlessness during sleep .

"The response from the tests on the groove` fetal origins hypothesis our health have been carried out - says Katri Raikkonen, who coordianto study -. And a further confirmation of the theory that, the living conditions in the prenatal period provides advance the behavior

This finding has interesting implications studies: l `insomnia associated child indeed with diseases such as obesity, depression, disorders of` attention and hyperactivity, poor neurological function.