A massive new studyhas founda worrying link between a number of common medications taken during pregnancy and a higher risk of autism in children.

Researchers looked at more than six million births in the US and found 15 widely prescribed drugs—antidepressants, heart medications, cholesterol-reducing drugs like statins—increased autism risk if taken during pregnancy.

These drugs account for 400 million prescriptions annually in the US.

Statins had a warning attached to their use during pregnancy until 2021, when it was removed.

The researchers believe the effects observed may have something to do with disruptions to cholesterol-synthesis.

Cholesterol, perhaps the most widely demonised natural substance in modern medicine, is a building block of every single cell in the human body and is critical, in particular, to the development and health of the brain, which contains the most cholesterol of any organ in the body.

A fetus does not begin producing its own cholesterol until about halfway through gestation, meaning disruptions to the mother’s cholesterol-synthesis during the first half of the pregnancy could have disastrous effects on brain development, paving the way for conditions like autism.

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Study Findsreports, “Published inMolecular Psychiatry, the study found that exposure to at least one of these cholesterol-disrupting medications during pregnancy was associated with a 47% relative increase in the risk ofan autism diagnosisin the child. The more of these drugs a pregnant woman was prescribed at the same time, the higher the risk climbed, reaching more than double the baseline risk when four or more were taken at once.

“Notably, the share of pregnant women prescribed at least one of these medications more than tripled over the study period, rising from 4.6% in 2014 to 16.8% in 2023.”

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