Prenatal exposure to fever is associated with autism spectrum disorder in the boston birth cohort.
Martha BrucatoChristine Ladd-AcostaMengying LiDeanna CarusoXiumei HongJamie KaczaniukElizabeth A StuartM Daniele FallinXiaobin WangPublished in: Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research (2017)
We looked at whether activation of the immune system during pregnancy increases the chance a child will develop ASD. We examined 116 children with ASD and 988 children without ASD that came from a predominantly low income, urban, minority population. We found that having the flu or genitourinary tract infections during pregnancy is not related to the child being diagnosed with ASD. However, we did find children were at increased risk for ASD when their mothers had a fever during pregnancy.