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Let me show you some numbers really quick. first of all, inducing labor means a woman is around her due date she has not yet developed contractions, you give medicines to start those contractions. augments means the contractions have started, but youre going to make the contractions even stronger. take a look at the numbers there, if someone induces, its about an 18% increase in the likelihood of having a boy with autism. slightly lower if just augmenting, 15%. if you do both, 35% increase overa...

We asked that same question. this is something that affects a lot of families, a lot of women out there, what i would say is, the old adage applies here, the correlation does not indicate causation. but, you know, if theres something more to be learned here, are the women who are more likely to get their labor induced, do they have other health problems that are very much in common. are they taking certain medications that are investigated more fully. is fathers age playing a role here. we know ...

>> i dont think so. we asked that same question. this is something that affects a lot of families, a lot of women out there, what i would say is, the old adage applies here, the correlation does not indicate causation. but, you know, if theres something more to be learned here, are the women who are more likely to get their labor induced, do they have other health problems that are very much in common. are they taking certain medications that are investigated more fully. is fathers age playing a...

I thought it was going to be much more common than i found. overall, inducing labor is about 23%, about a quarter of women have their labor induced. and those numbers are from 2008, the last time it was really recorded, my guess is, its a little higher now. its a little lower than most people expected, its not all women. >> as you mentioned, the findings were much more pronounced among boys, do you know why theres a gender gap? >> i dont know why there is, this could be one of those things where...

Things where we dont know which came first. we know boys are more likely to have autism than girls. numbers across the board, they say one in 88 children, but if you look more specifically at the numbers, among boys, its one in 54, among girls, its one in 252, it could mean that more boys are having autism or this is playing some role. we dont know. >> what does that actually -- im practically speaking, what should families do, should people stop inducing or augmenting pregnancies? >> i dont thi...

>> i dont think so. we asked that same question. this is something that affects a lot of families, a lot of women out there, what i would say is, the old adage applies here, the correlation does not indicate causation. but, you know, if theres something more to be learned here, are the women who are more likely to get their labor induced, do they have other health problems that are very much in common. are they taking certain medications th the process, the medicine that is given during that pro...