Maternal Prenatal Weight Gain and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Published October 28, 2013 in Pediatrics

New research from the University of Utah and published in the journal Pediatrics has uncovered an association between autism spectrum disorders and a small increase in the amount of weight a mother gains during pregnancy. These findings suggest that weight gain during pregnancy is not the cause of ASD but rather may reflect an underlying process that it shares with autism spectrum disorders, such as abnormal hormone levels or inflammation.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/10/23/peds.2013-1188.abstract

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