İt is higher risk of autism when you have hospital infection in pregnancy

A new study finds that hospital-diagnosed bacterial infections in pregnancy are associated with a higher risk of autism spectrum disorders.

Infections diagnosed in hospital and autism risk

Senior author and research scientist Dr. Lisa A. Croen says they found:She explains that though infections in pregnant women are common, they found most were not tied to increased risk for autism:

"Only bacterial infections diagnosed in the hospital were associated with an increased risk."

Their analysis showed pregnant women with bacterial infections diagnosed in the hospital (such as of the genitals, urinary tract and amniotic fluid) had a 58% higher risk of delivering a child with ASD.

Although not very common in the group they studied, having an infection diagnosed during a hospital stay that occurred in the second trimester of pregnancy was linked to a three-fold increase of having children who developed ASD.



Source : Women Citizen , 1st Jan 2014