Screen Time Before 2 Years of Age and Risk of Autism at 12 Years of Age

Ping-I Lin; Weng Tong Wu; Yue-Liang Leon Guo

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4432

Screen Time Before 2 Years of Age and Risk of Autism at 12 Years of Age

JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Jan 1;179(1):90-91. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4432.

Authors

Ping-I Lin¹, Weng Tong Wu², Yue-Liang Leon Guo³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
² School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU) and NTU Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Plain language summary

This cohort study evaluates the association between screen time and autism spectrum disorder by considering socioeconomic factors as instrumental variables.