A recent study conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that autism was nearly twice as common among children of women who were treated with the ovulation-inducing medicines than women who did not suffer from infertility.
About 34 percent of moms with an autistic child had used fertility drugs compared to about 24 percent of around 3,900 mothers without an autistic child, according to the research. Nearly 47 percent of moms of autistic kids reported infertility, compared to about 33 percent of the other mothers. And, according to the study, the longer women reported being treated for infertility, the higher the chances were that their child had an autism spectrum disorder (Salahi, Lara).
Although this study was recently presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia, the details of the study have not yet been published- so there is still much evaluation to be done regarding this topic. It does pose an interesting question regarding an ostensible link between infertility drugs and autism.
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