The timing of exposure appears crucial, with heightened vulnerability during prenatal development and early childhood when critical neurodevelopmental processes occur.
The research suggests that individuals with genetic predisposition to ASD may be more vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution exposure
The implications extend beyond individual health to public policy. How might cities need to adapt their urban planning to protect vulnerable populations? What role could air quality monitoring play in prenatal care?
Actually I don’t see why anything would be done to orevent development of autism, when not much was done for all the already known damage that actual urban development cause
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The article itself is absolute hot garbage. It does nothing to back its claims beyond a few citations and fancy words. This is a just “make my numbers go up” pub. Irresponsible waste of resources if it really was funded by a grant. Christ look at the levels of speculation and chains of if/then correlations blatantly apparent in the diagram on page 3 of the journal article.