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Thu 09 Sep 2009'Worrying' alcohol use in pregnancies
PREGNANT IRISH and British women drink more heavily than women in other EU states, an alcohol and pregnancy conference at the European Parliament in Brussels heard yesterday.
Dr Siobhán Barry, visiting consultant psychiatrist at the Coombe hospital, told the conference there was “a marked difference” between expectant Irish and UK mothers and the rest of the EU and non-EU when it came to reported alcohol consumption of more than six units per week.
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