Children may be more likely to be diagnosed with autism and other neurodevelopment disorders if their mother had a Covid-19 infection while pregnant, according to a new study.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed more than 18,000 births that occurred in the Mass General Brigham health system between March 2020 and May 2021, assessing records for laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 tests among the mothers and for neurodevelopment diagnoses among their children through age 3.
They found that children born to mothers who had Covid-19 during pregnancy were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with a neurodevelopment disorder than those born to mothers who did not have an infection while pregnant: more than 16% versus less than 10%, or a 1.3 times higher risk after adjusting for other risk factors.
according to a new study
Imma wait for the meta analysis in 10 years before I care
This smells like a correlation that is not a causation to me. Maybe it’s something like “people who are more likely to seek diagnoses”.
Covid 19 has fever as a symptom,
Fever is a risk factor for neuro development disorders.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8449704/
Thats at least one causal link.
this occurs with other viruses to, like varicella CMV during pregnancy, but thier congenital damage is more severe.
That is also a correlation, not necessarily a causation.
Don’t have opinions on studies you haven’t read, much less on widely accepted medical fact with multiple studies backing the claim which is clearly not your area of expertise.
That said, COVID does, in addition to a high fever which is a proven risk factor, both punch holes in the blood-brain barrier and pass through the placenta. It’s very possible there’s multiple causations.
The study is, indeed, correlation. It does not posit a cause.
Still, the conclusion is valid:
These findings highlight the importance of long-term neurodevelopmental monitoring for SARS-CoV-2–exposed children.
Is there a correlation of mother home during pandemic with child and observing, vs child at day care where somebody might not be focused on why is the child like this?
Children are routinely screened for autism at their well-child visits at 18 and 24 months these days, it’s not dependent on parental observation.
I mean by a parent insisting based on watching. We know a family that was trying to get autism diagnosis but soc kept saying no, so I don’t know the routine screening you mean.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/autism-spectrum-disorder
Stage 1: General developmental screening during well-child checkups
Every child should receive well-child checkups with a pediatrician or an early childhood health care provider. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children receive screening for developmental delays at their 9-, 18-, and 24- or 30-month well-child visits, with specific autism screenings at the 18- and 24-month well-child visits. A child may receive additional screenings if they have an increased likelihood of developing ASD or developmental problems.
Thanks for the source. This does not seem to be happening everywhere for us here. We have a friend’s (kids) not diagnosed until Kindergarten, and one of their kids definitely is on the spectrum (in my unprofessional opinion) and around 7-8 years old. They eventually took him for specialist testing but they testing said no. (He was biting kids, non verbal, hyper focused interests which later he would only talk about, but the parents kept saying he’s fine, there are no issues) Which is a kid falling through the cracks if you ask me.
My daughter is a teacher with a Behavioural Intervention specialty. She’s picked out a few kids in her classes that are around 7-9 age they definitely have spectrum issues but parents deny it and say the kid is fine, when spectrum testing should be looked at.
So that’s why I believe parent advocacy (or non advocacy) plays a big role in getting your child in front of a doctor that agrees with you, or is serious about screening.
I’m curious what state this is in.
Provinces for us in Canada
Oh, sorry. I’m the dumb American who thinks everyone is from the US. I have no idea what the standard is in Canada.
Maybe they took a Tylenol? /s
That’s CRAZY!
-People who STILL wont mask but WILL Sue Tylenol!
So get covid and get autism, or get the vaccine and get autism, splain that one people-who-do-their-own-research…
Facts don’t matter in that discussion. It may look like a debate, but it’s all about emotions and cognitive biases. What wasn’t reasoned in, can’t be reasoned out.
Birth directly leads to death. To keep people from dying, we just need to keep babies from being born. You can’t die if you’ve never been born.
