A U.S. study looking at children born more than three months prematurely provided fresh evidence on Thursday linking pre-term birth and autism.
These children were about two to three times as likely to show signs of autism at age 2 as measured in a standard screening tool compared to other children, the researchers wrote in the Journal of Pediatrics. . . .
Reuters - January 29, 2009
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