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To address these issues, an epidemiology study of FAS and other FASD was undertaken in Italian schools.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods: <\/jats:bold> Primary schools (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>=25) in 2 health districts of the Lazio region were randomly selected and recruited for the study. Five hundred forty\u2010three children, 50% of those enrolled in first\u2010grade classes, received parental permission to participate in a 2\u2010tiered, active case ascertainment screening process. Detailed evaluation of children selected in a preliminary screening phase was carried out on those who were small for height, weight, and head circumference and\/or referred by teachers for suspected learning and behavioral problems. Detailed evaluation was carried out on each child's: (1) physical growth and dysmorphology, (2) psychological development and behavior, and (3) prenatal exposure to alcohol and other risk factors for FASD via maternal interviews. A group of 67 randomly selected children without FASD from the same classes was utilized as a comparison group.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results: <\/jats:bold> Using 2 denominators for prevalence estimation, a conservative one and a strict sample\u2010based estimate, the prevalence of FAS in this province of Italy was 3.7 to 7.4 per 1,000 children. When cases of partial FAS (PFAS) and a case of alcohol\u2010related neurodevelopmental deficits (ARND) were added to FAS cases, the rate of FASD was 20.3 to 40.5 per 1,000 and estimated at 35 per 1,000 overall or between 2.3 and 4.1% of all children. This exceeds previously published estimates of both FAS and FASD for the western world. Detailed data are presented that demonstrate the utility of the guidelines of the revised Institute of Medicine diagnostic criteria for FASD. Children with FASD are significantly more impaired\/affected (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt;0.05) than randomly selected comparison children on all measures of growth deficiency, key facial features of FASD, overall dysmorphology scores, language comprehension, nonverbal IQ, and behavior. Maternal reports of current drinking were significantly higher for mothers of FASD children than comparison mothers, but reported rates of overall drinking during pregnancy were not significantly different. In contrast to expectations, daily drinking among mothers of the comparison group was not common. However, dysmorphology scores of the children were significantly correlated with drinking in the second and third trimesters, drinks per current drinking day, and current drinks per month. Finally, children with the physical features of FASD had lower IQs; nonverbal IQ was significantly correlated with head circumference and negatively correlated with overall dysmorphology score, smooth philtrum, and several other facial and physical anomalies characteristic of FAS.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions: <\/jats:bold> Using careful measures of ascertainment in a primary school setting, these results provide relatively high estimates of the prevalence of FASD and raise the question of whether FASD is more common in the western world than previously estimated.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1530-0277.2006.00188.x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,8,14]],"date-time":"2006-08-14T10:15:41Z","timestamp":1155550541000},"page":"1562-1575","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":137,"title":["Epidemiology of FASD in a Province in Italy: Prevalence and Characteristics of Children in a Random Sample of 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