A new study published by NYU Langone Health suggests that pregnancy complications related to the fetus, rather than maternal health diagnoses, are associated with autism in children. Researchers analyzed over 1.1 million pregnancies and found that after accounting for various confounding factors, only fetal pregnancy complications remained statistically linked to autism.
Many previous studies have reported such a link, but researchers say nearly all these associations can be explained by other“Our study shows that there is no convincing evidence that any of these other diagnoses in the mother can cause,” senior researcher Magdalena Janecka, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, said in a news release.
After accounting for these confounding factors, the team found that 30 diagnoses among mothers were still statistically associated with autism in children. For example, it appeared as though If a mom had the same health problems during pregnancies of children with and without autism, that would suggest factors other than her illness were influencing her child's risk of autism, researchers reasoned.After accounting for such familial factors, the only maternal diagnosis still associated with autism was pregnancy complications related to the fetus, researchers found.
AUTISM PREGNANCY HEALTH FETAL DEVELOPMENT STUDY
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