A largest of its kind study conducted by the University of Manchester and led by Professor Kathryn Abel was recently published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study looked at data on approximately 40,000 children in Sweden. The results showed that babies over 4.5 kg (9 lb 14 oz) had a 60% increased risk for autism and babies under 2.5 kg (5 lb 8 oz) had a 63% increased risk for autism. The increased risk was observed whether the babies were born early or after reaching full term. Professor Abel has suggested that disfunction in the placenta may be were something is disrupting normal development of the babies. Read more about it at manchester.ac.uk here:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9955
The journal article is available online at ajp.psychiatryonline.org here:
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=1674558
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