Peter Kruithof

Lecturer Global Health, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, Sunderland University, Sunderland

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Figure 2. Facial characteristics that may be seen in FASD

A brief overview of fetal alcohol syndrome for health professionals

Alcohol is a teratogen that has a toxic effect on the developing fetus (BMA, 2007a). FASD is seen as a non-diagnostic umbrella term (Riley et al, 2011; Nash and Davies, 2017; Blagg and Tulich, 2018)...

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