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thundara · 3453 days ago · link · · parent · post: Maternal exposure to anti-depressant SSRIs linked to autism in children
SBM did a decent commentary on this: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/antidepressants-and-autism/ My comments to a friend: It is still only observational. Nothing's to say that the underlying link isn't the mother's depression itself or another factor inducing that depression.I imagine 1-2% risk is a pretty scary number to a mother worried about being the one unlucky person in fifty, but I liked how that post put it in context. It's still a surprising link and if I were the one having a kid, this might make me want to hold off until my treatment was complete.