Study reports associations between infants’ head growth patterns and risk of autism. The odds were 6–10 times higher in the 5% of infants with the smallest head circumferences and the 5% of infants with the largest head circumferences.
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Study reports associations between infants’ head growth patterns and risk of autism
Infants with consistently small or large head circumferences during their first year had three times the odds of an autism diagnosis, a new study finds. For those in the most extreme percentiles, the odds were up to ten times higher.
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