{"id":24989,"date":"2017-12-01T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=24989"},"modified":"2017-11-23T01:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T06:11:13","slug":"study-suggests-time-between-pregnancies-may-affect-autism-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2017\/12\/study-suggests-time-between-pregnancies-may-affect-autism-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests time between pregnancies may affect autism risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19869\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Autism2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"275\" \/>Investigators have found a <strong>link between the amount of time between pregnancies and Autism Spectrum Disorder in children<\/strong>. The findings are published in\u00a0<em>Autism Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Autism Spectrum Disorder was<strong> increased in second and later-born children who were conceived less than 18 months or 60 or more months after the mother&#8217;s previous birth<\/strong>. Other developmental disabilities were not associated with birth spacing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These findings support existing guidelines on pregnancy spacing and further highlight the association between autism and pregnancy health,&#8221; said lead author Dr. Laura Schieve, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. &#8220;Couples thinking about getting pregnant should discuss pregnancy planning with a trusted doctor or healthcare provider.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release: Investigators have found a link between the amount of time between pregnancies and Autism Spectrum Disorder in children. The findings are published in\u00a0Autism Research. Autism&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2017\/12\/study-suggests-time-between-pregnancies-may-affect-autism-risk\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331,10],"tags":[72,45,180,73,379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25019,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989\/revisions\/25019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}