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Reevaluation of growth in alcohol-exposed children at 5 to 7 years of age suggests that effects on weight and height are mitigated, whereas effects on head circumference remain. Children whose mothers drank throughout pregnancy show the greatest deficits in head circumference.
SOURCE: Coles et al. 1991.
