Infants exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in the womb are at increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders in the first year of life, a new study warns.
The study included 7772 mostly singleton live births across six hospitals in Massachusetts between March and September 2020, including 222 births to mothers with SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed by polymerase chain reaction testing during pregnancy.
When factors such as preterm delivery, race, ethnicity, insurance status, child sex, and the mother's were taken into account, COVID-exposed babies were significantly more likely to receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis in the first year of life. The majority of these diagnoses reflected developmental disorders of movement or speech and language.
They caution, however, that whether a definitive connection exists between prenatal SARS-CoV-2 exposure and adverse neurodevelopment in babies is not yet known, in part because children born to women infected in the first wave of the pandemic haven't reached their second birthday — a time when neurodevelopment disorders such as autism are typically diagnosed.
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