Children born with high blood levels of vitamin D have 25 percent decreased odds of autism compared with those born with low levels.
- Nicholette Zeliadt
- Sprctrum
Researchers presented the unpublished results today at the 2018 International Society for Autism Researchannual meeting in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The results come from the largest study yet to explore a link between vitamin D and autism.
It involves an analysis of dried blood spots from 3,370 newborns in Sweden, 1,341 of whom now have an autism diagnosis.
The findings reinforce evidence of a link between vitamin D and autism risk.
A 2017 study of…