Move Over, Tylenol .

New research suggests that a common — but often overlooked — pregnancy complication may increase your chances of having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The good news? If you treat it, the risk doesn’t seem to rise.

In the study, researchers looked at more than 51,000 women in Israel who gave birth between 2011 and 2017. Of them, 4,409 had abnormal thyroid hormone levels — some before pregnancy, some during and some both.

The team followed the women through January 2021 and found that thyroid dysfunction before and during pregnancy more than doubled the chances of their child having autism.

An estimated 1 in 31 children age 8 and older in the US has been diagnosed with ASD, a disorder affecting learning, behavior, communication and social intera

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