SBM did a decent commentary on this: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/antidepressants-and-autism/ My comments to a friend: It is still only observational. Nothing's to say that the underlying link isn't the mother's depression itself or another factor inducing that depression.I imagine 1-2% risk is a pretty scary number to a mother worried about being the one unlucky person in fifty, but I liked how that post put it in context. It's still a surprising link and if I were the one having a kid, this might make me want to hold off until my treatment was complete.
As always, it would be great if people didn't overreact, because a causal link hasn't been established by a country mile. As far as I know, they didn't control for level of depression, for example. That is, people who are very depressed as far more likely to not want to quit taking medication than those who are mildly depressed. Also, all they had were prescriptions, not self-reporting of taking medicine. Anyone who has dealt with people on mental illness pills, knows that there's a lot of people who don't taken them, even when prescribed. It's an interesting study, but I'm bothered by all the physicians who say, "don't over interpret", but then go on to do said same in the very next sentence.
This is true. I guess I sort of did that, though I'd still stand by sticking on the drug if you already have the child and (all else being equal) considering holding off on a new child from the category C classification.but I'm bothered by all the physicians who say, "don't over interpret", but then go on to do said same in the very next sentence.