Open AccessEarly Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children Born to Fertile, Subfertile, and ART-Treated Women
Author(s) -
Hafsatou Diop,
Howard Cabral,
Deepa M. Gopal,
Xiaohui Cui,
Judy E. Stern,
Milton Kotelchuck
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
maternal and child health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1573-6628
pISSN - 1092-7875
DOI - 10.1007/s10995-019-02770-z
Subject(s) - intracytoplasmic sperm injection , medicine , assisted reproductive technology , fertility , reproductive medicine , in vitro fertilisation , infertility , obstetrics , live birth , gynecology , embryo transfer , spontaneous conception , logistic regression , odds ratio , pregnancy , population , biology , genetics , environmental health , pathology
We examined the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in Massachusetts (MA) comparing children born via assisted reproductive technology (ART) and children born to women with indicators of subfertility but no ART (Subfertile), to children born to women with neither ART nor indicators of subfertility (Fertile). We assessed the direct, indirect, and total effects of ART and subfertility on ASD among singletons.