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Babies who are unusually small at birth have a higher-than-average risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) later in life, a new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests. Beginning in 1984, researchers followed 1,105 babies who weighed less than 4 pounds, 7 ounces at birth, and they found that 5 percent of them met the criteria for ASD by age 21 -- a rate roughly five times higher than that in the general population of children. The rate seen in the study is "quite striking"

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