{"id":195528,"date":"2024-09-01T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/do-plastics-cause-autism-heres-what-the-latest-study-really-says"},"modified":"2024-09-01T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:22:48","slug":"do-plastics-cause-autism-heres-what-the-latest-study-really-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/do-plastics-cause-autism-heres-what-the-latest-study-really-says","title":{"rendered":"Do Plastics Cause Autism? Here\u2019s what the latest study really says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-plastics-cause-autism-heres-what-the-latest-study-really-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study out recently has prompted much media attention about the role of plastics in developing autism.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the study focused on exposure to a component of hard plastics\u2014bisphenol A, or BPA\u2014in the womb and the risk of boys developing this neurodevelopmental disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the study doesn\u2019t show plastics containing BPA cause autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study out recently has prompted much media attention about the role of plastics in developing autism. In particular, the study focused on exposure to a component of hard plastics\u2014bisphenol A, or BPA\u2014in the womb and the risk of boys developing this neurodevelopmental disorder. Importantly, the study doesn\u2019t show plastics containing BPA cause autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}