Pregnancy and Autism: What You Need to Know
Can complications during pregnancy lead to autism? We’ll talk about it on this next Back & Body video. Dr. Dave Perna here, your chiropractor with Back & Body Medical where we offer a collaborative care of physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture and medical care to the patients of New York City in Midtown, East on 58th and Lexington as well as in Union County on US Route 22 East in Springfield, New Jersey offering our services to the people of Westfield, Cranford, Scotch Plains, Milburn and Springfield.
Today’s study looks at a case from the Journal of Perinatology and it looked at 600,000 children whose mother reported complications during their third trimester of their pregnancy and then they looked at the child after birth and they looked at if they had any signs of being in the autism spectrum disorder or ASD. They noticed that 22% of the children experienced ASD if the mother had experienced any sort of complications during the third trimester of pregnancy. If the mother experienced complications during just the delivery during pregnancy, the child had a 10% chance of having symptoms in ASD. If the mother experienced complications during the pregnancy and the delivery stages of pregnancy, the child had a 44% chance of ASD. So this tells us that it warrants further research to understand the physiological changes that occur to the child in utero during pregnancy. For more information like this, these daily health updates that we provide on video you can find our information on the blog. Just go to backandbodyny.com if you’re in the New York City area and if you’re in the New Jersey, go visit us at backandbodynj.com. We’ll see you soon.
