Not exact matches
In the new study, perinatal epidemiologist Anick Bérard, at the University of Montreal in Canada, and colleagues used data collected on 145,456 infants born in Quebec between January 1998 and December 2009 to calculate the
risk of
autism among babies whose mothers had used one or more antidepressants while pregnant.
The study may explain,
among other things, how the mother's infection with the cytomegalovirus (CMV) during pregnancy, which affects her own and her fetus's immune system, increases the
risk that her offspring will develop
autism or schizophrenia, sometimes years later.
«This difficulty may be indicative of a broader deficit
autism trait
among most high -
risk siblings.»
«These results indicate that the higher
autism risk may be due mainly to the large numbers of multiple births and complications of pregnancy and delivery
among children conceived with ART,» said Christine Fountain, assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University and affiliated researcher at Columbia University.
Next, Shelton hopes to look for
autism risk from pesticide exposure
among mothers with certain genetic variations.
These chronic low Vitamin D levels during pregnancy can lead to increased
risk of cesarean, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and vaginal infection in the mother, and a higher
risk of
autism, mental disorders, infection, low birth weight, and heart / lung / brain problems
among others.
She calls on healthcare providers to assess dietary intake of dairy and protein in children with
autism as part of their wellness care and be mindful of the increased
risk for low bone density
among these children.
By 2090, as many as 2 billion people globally will be breathing air above the WHO «safe» level; one paper last month showed that,
among other effects, a pregnant mother's exposure to ozone raises the child's
risk of
autism (as much as tenfold, combined with other environmental factors).
Participation in a nursery program was shown to improve synchrony
among parent - child dyads where the child had autism [107]; (4) Among high - risk, low - income, toddler boys, synchrony was positively associated with maternal nurturance and language skills, and negatively associated with child emotional negativity
among parent - child dyads where the child had
autism [107]; (4)
Among high - risk, low - income, toddler boys, synchrony was positively associated with maternal nurturance and language skills, and negatively associated with child emotional negativity
Among high -
risk, low - income, toddler boys, synchrony was positively associated with maternal nurturance and language skills, and negatively associated with child emotional negativity [69].