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Autism Linked to Premature Birth in Recent Clinical Study
A study published in the medical journal, Pediatrics, indicates that premature babies, or underweight babies, are at a greater risk for autism. Researchers at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted the study. Babies born before 33 weeks of pregnancy were classified as premature by the researchers for the purpose of the study. Babies born under five pounds were considered underweight. The researchers studied 565 children diagnosed with autism that were born between 1986 and 1993. These children were divided into three different categories: children with autism and one developmental disease, children with autism and more than one developmental disease and children with autism only. The three classifications of children with autism were compared against a control group. The researchers analyzed the connection between autism, birth date and birth weight. Upon analyzing the information, the researchers were able to link the combination of premature birth and…
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More Premature Babies, More Brain Damage
Over 60,000 babies are born each year weighing less than 3.3 pounds. Modern medicine is allowing most premature babies to survive, but many will suffer some form of brain damage. “That means that overall rates of cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disabilities are on the rise,” says David Rowitch, chief of neonatology at the University of California, San Francisco. According to Rowitch, lack of oxygen is the chief cause of brain injury in premature infants. White matter, where the “communication highways” reside, carrying messages through the brain and to the body, is damaged by oxygen deprivation. Rowitch originally discovered the white matter damage by examining dead infants, but recently has been able to take over 250 premature babies through an MRI by using a special incubator designed to go through the scanner. This allows scientists to detect damage to white matter immediately. Now that scientists can detect the damage, they…
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Premature Babies Are At Higher Risk of Diabetes, Study Finds
According to MSNBC, diabetes risk may be slightly higher in premature babies. According to a Swedish study, children who spent less time in the womb had a slightly higher risk, less than 1 percent, of developing diabetes at a later time in their life. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 3 of every 25 babies are delivered prematurely. Premature babies face a lot of developmental risks, but diabetes could lead to other risk factors such as high blood pressure. The research team, along with Dr. Casey Crump of Stanford University, used a national prescription database to track the use of diabetes medications by 630,000 people in Sweden born between 1973 and 1979. Roughly 28,000 of those individuals were born premature, the study found. Crump’s team found that 15 out of 100 preemies developed diabetes by the time they were in their twenties and thirties….
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