According to a recent study, there is a link between vehicle
pollution with increased risk of autism in children. The research was conducted by researchers from the University of southern California involving 279 children with autism and 245 children who did not have autism.
Every mother of the children provided data such as address of the house they live in during the early period of pregnancy to the child's growth. The data are used by researchers to examine other parameters to obtain data such as traffic volume, wind direction, vehicle emissions, and the estimated amount of pollutant materials in the environment where they live. By doing so, the research will determine how many children are affected by pollution.
The researchers showed findings, that children who are often exposed to pollution three times higher chance of having autism than children who live in an environment that has clean air and environmental air pollution away from motor vehicles. The findings were published in the Archives of General Psychiatry Journal. Heather Volk, an assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine ( USC ), said that these results do not conclude the cause of autism pollution, but pollution may be a
factor of increased risk of autism.
Sophia Xiang Sun, a researcher from Cambridge University Autism Center, said the same thing that is logically true if there is a link pollution and autism. Biologically, it is quite reasonable if the pollution has a role to the presence of autism . According to her, the traffic pollution also affects other diseases.
But a researcher's cognitive development at University College, London, Uta Frith said that research There is a weakness because it does not explain the effect of pollution on brain development cause autism, so he still doubted the link between
autism and pollution.
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