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Asthma
Published study finds mother's asthma or allergies may increase risk of autism
March 10th, 2005
Asthma or allergies in an expectant mother may increase the likelihood that her child will exhibit symptoms of autism, according to a Kaiser Permanente study featured in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The study also looked at the assumed association between autoimmune diseases such as lupus, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and Addison disease and autism in the children of mothers with those conditions. "With the exception of psoriasis, we did not find an association between autoimmune diseases in mothers and autism," says study author Lisa A. Croen, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research in Oakland, California....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-10)
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