Scientists eye link between autism, traffic pollution
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Traffic is bumper to bumper looking west on a Sunday along Jericho Turnpike (Route 25) in Commack.(Oct. 16, 2012)
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Exposure to traffic-related pollution during pregnancy and a child's first year of life appears to be associated with an elevated risk of autism, scientists found in an analysis released Monday.
Medical investigators, reporting in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that children living in homes near the highest levels of traffic-related air pollution were three times as likely to have...
