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Can The Placenta Determine Autism?

Thursday, April 25, 2013 19:29

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A new study released says the Austism, which usually diagnosed in children at the toddler stage, may be predicted by creases and folds in a newborn’s placenta.

The placenta provides fetuses with nutrients from the mother during pregnancy, and in most cultures is usually discarded. The study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, found that it could help determine austism risk in children.

“At birth we have a tool now that can tell us who’s at risk and who isn’t at risk for autism,”said the study’s main author, Yale researcher Dr. Harvey Kliman. “This gives us the opportunity to intervene at a time when the brain is most plastic and able to transform.”

Dr. Kliman and his team, including an initially-skeptical obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Cheryl K. Walker, analyzed “Milky Way bar-size sections” of placentas from 217 newborns, and found that those with abnormal creases, called trophoblast inclusions, may be more prone to autism.

While “two-thirds of the low-risk placentas had no inclusions…77 high-risk placentas had inclusions, 48 of them had two or more, including 16 with between 5 and 15 inclusions,” the New York Times reported.

The children involved in this study were between the ages of 2 and 5 years old and may not be diagnosed untill later on. The scientists involved in this study will have some waiting to do to see if their predictions are right.

I think it’s a great way for parents to say, ‘O.K., we have some risk factors; we’re not going to ignore it,’” said Dr. Chris Mann Sullivan, who had her placenta analysed by Dr. Kliman after her daughter was born and began early intensive treatment after 5 inclusions were found.

However, Dr. Kliman noted that more research is needed in order to solidify the link, calling the placenta a “check-engine light, a marker of: something’s wrong, but I don’t know what it is,” according to the Times.

Autism has spiked in the United States, with one in 50 children being diagnosed every year, this figure is way more than the original government estimate of one in 88. It’s not only the United States though that has had an increase in Autism, and as we all know the vaccines for our children have been blamed.

This study is saying that the placenta may be able to tell us if the child is at risk, if that is the case then people can’t blame the vaccines, can they? The possibilities that the placenta can offer toward other diseases as well is amazing.

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