First Biomarker Evidence Autism Is Linked to DDT

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First Biomarker Evidence Autism Is Linked to DDT

Elevated levels of a dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) metabolite in pregnant women provide the first biomarker evidence that the banned insecticide is implicated in autism in children, new research shows.
“This study provides the first evidence, using a marker of an insecticide in the blood, that a pregnant mother’s exposure to this organic pollutant is related to an increased risk of autism in her offspring. Previous studies were based, for example, on proximity to sites that were contaminated with these pollutants,” lead investigator Alan S. Brown, MD, MPH, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, told Medscape Medical News.


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