Baby's first stool can help predict future IQ score

[damnedifIknow]

NEW YORK: Analysis of a newborn's first stool can alert doctors whether a child is at risk of problems with intelligence and reasoning, new research shows.

In particular, high levels of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) found in the meconium (a newborn's first stool) from a mother's alcohol use during pregnancy can alert doctors that a child may develop cognitive problems in teenage years, the findings showed.

"We wanted to see if there was a connection between FAEE level and their cognitive development during childhood and adolescence -- and there was," said one of the researchers Meeyoung Min, research assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University in the US.

For this study, researchers analysed the meconium of 216 babies for levels of FAEE. They then gave intelligence tests at ages nine, 11 and 15. The researchers found a link between those with high levels of FAEE at birth and lower IQ scores. "

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Babys-first-stool-can-help-predict-future-IQ-score/articleshow/48067193.cms

[elleng]

1. Related to maternal alcohol use,

no surprise. We just don't DO that anymore. (Not in my family anyway. I became pregnant during our honeymoon in Italy, so stopped drinking immediately thereafter.)

[Warren DeMontague]

2. A Chair's For Fools!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. OK there's a shit for brains and Republican joke around here somewhere.... hmmm... nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. In before the bell.......

[Javaman]

5. we think alike LOL nt