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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...
...study, presented last Wednesday at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia, found that women who had taken ovulation-inducing drugs, either orally or through injections, were at almost twice the risk of giving birth to children who develop autism compared to women who had not taken any fertility drugs. The risk of autism increased with the time the mothers underwent such fertility treatments...
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...
...orphanage currently houses and feeds about 70 children, and the school expects to support about 700 local students this September, according to Ford...