Swedish study links rare pregnancy TORCH infections to sharply higher autism risk
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A Karolinska Institutet study in JAMA Pediatrics of 3.7 million people born in Sweden from 1987 to 2021 found congenital TORCH infections were linked to about threefold higher autism risk, more than sevenfold intellectual disability risk, and up to 30-fold risk of severe to profound intellectual disability among 975 affected individuals.
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