Svetlana Popova and colleagues (March, 2017) 1 estimated that about one quarter of
pregnant women in Europe drink alcohol. The authors state that this estimate is 2· 6 times …

We thank Katrine Strandberg-Larsen and colleagues from Denmark and Simona Pichini and
colleagues from Italy for their comments on our paper. 1 Both comments underline the …

Svetlana Popova and colleagues (March, 2017) 1 sought to estimate the global, regional,
and national prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

In The Lancet Global Health, Svetlana Popova and colleagues1 report unacceptably high
global prevalence rates of alcohol use in pregnancy (9· 8%) and fetal alcohol syndrome …

The first international conference on prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders was held
in Edmonton, AB, Canada, on Sept 23–25, 2013. The conference resulted in the production …

Alcohol is a known teratogen and associated with a range of adverse outcomes for pregnant
women and children exposed in utero. 1–3 The most prominent of these is known as fetal …

Robin Room and colleagues could have put more emphasis on this important issue in their
review. 1 “Perinatal conditions” are only mentioned in table 3, where the alcoholassociated …

We thank Patrick Doorley and Joan Hanafin from Ireland and Mabel Berrueta and
colleagues from Argentina and Uruguay for their comments about our Article on the global …

The inSIGHT study1 was a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of routine
hysteroscopy before the first in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection …

Alcohol is a psychoactive substance with toxic and dependence-producing properties, which
is consumed worldwide. More than 2 billion people, or about three of ten individuals, are …