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Autism Associated With Infertility Drugs
Mothers of those with autism have always wondered whether they could have done something to prevent their child from getting the disorder. Is it something they did? Oprah-backed Jenny McCarthy made a second career of sorts by claiming that vaccines were the culprit. (She has since dialed back her accusations.) New research has found something else is to blame entirely. Autism is nearly twice as common among the children of women who were treated with infertility drugs, a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health found. Presented on Wednesday at the International Meeting for Autism Research, the study showed that the longer women were treated by Clomid and similar drugs, the more likely it was that their child would be autistic. The study included nearly 4,000 women. "Preterm delivery, low birth rate, twinning and maternal age are all associated with infertility treatment and they are all associated with the risk of autism," Lisa Croen, senior research scientist with Kaiser Permanente and director of its Autism Research Program, told Time. "We need to understand how to tease these factors apart." A second, smaller, study presented on Wednesday found an association between in vitro fertilization and autism. More than 10 percent of autistic children that the second study looked at were the result of in vitro fertilization, whereas only between 3 percent and 4 percent of children in the general population are the product of IVF.
