Relationship between the tobacco use and alcohol during the gestation and the PDD

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Santiago López Gómez
Rosa María Rivas Torres

Abstract

Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) are refired to neuropsychological alterations of unknown etiology. These are disorders originated in childhood with a chronic course and strong and divers symptoms. It has been proposed various models of work with respect to the aetiology that describes the pathogenesis of these disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there are differences between tobacco use and alcohol consumption during pregnancy in a sample of mothers whose children were diagnosed with PDD (N = 94) compared with a control group (N = 165). The sample comprised 68 children with autistic disorder, 6 with Asperger's syndrome, 1 with Rett disorder and 19 with PDD-NOS. The results showed that there is not significant differences between groups. Therefore, one might conclude that, according to results found in this study, there is not significant differences between the experimental and control and, thus, use tobacco and consumption of alcohol during pregnancy may not be related to the etiology of the PDD.

Keywords:
Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), Perinatal risk, Etiology, Alcohol, Tobacco, Gestation

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