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Prolonged Fever During

Pregnancy May Increase Autism Risk

Pam on Medscape Medical News

The author of the study said pregnant women should not panic at the

research, which discovered a potential link between mother's immune

systems and their unborn baby's brains

Fever lasting longer than 1 week may

increase the risk for infantile autism, a large population-based study

suggests.

Hjördis Ósk

Atladóttir, MD, PhD, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and

colleagues found that children whose mothers had a fever lasting longer

than 1 week before gestational week 32 had about a 3-fold increased

risk of being diagnosed with infantile autism.

In addition, children whose mothers

reported influenza infection during pregnancy had about twice the risk

of being diagnosed with infantile autism.

In contrast, influenza infection was not

associated with the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

There also appeared to be a small

increased risk for ASD and infantile autism among children whose

mothers used certain antibiotics during pregnancy, although this

finding might have been due to chance alone.

"We found no association between ASD and

mild maternal infections, such as respiratory

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