November 27, 2025 12:04 PM
Thyroid dysfunction continued during pregnancy linked to autism risk
Out-of-whack thyroid hormones during pregnancy in mothers with pre-pregnancy thyroid dysfunction may increase the child's risk of autism, researchers found. While adequately treated chronic thyroid dysfunction did not increase the odds of an autism diagnosis in offspring, ongoing imbalances across multiple trimesters did increase the risk, study leader Idan Menashe of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel said in a statement. The study followed more than 51,000 births, including 4,409 i...