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Despite the limitations, Lyall said that the link between ovulation inducing drugs, history of infertility, and autism merits further investigation...
Data was obtained only through questionnaires, so the researchers were unable to verify other potential factors such as the subjects’ medical histories, the timing of fertility treatment, or the onset of autism in the children...
Using data from the Nurses Health Study II, the researchers analyzed almost 4,000 women, looking for women who took OID before their first pregnancy whose children developed autism and adjusting for age of the mothers, pregnancy complications, and other autism risk factors...
Other anecdotal and animal studies have also pointed to increased numbers of autistic children whose mothers had used assisted fertility, said Patricia A. Davis ’84, a pediatrician at Harvard-affiliate Mass. General Hospital who is also conducting research on fertility treatment and autism...
...This a very complex question, and we’re just beginning to get information,” Davis said. “We need to tease out whether [the autism risk] is associated with the age or the mother or father, or genetic risk...