Why is paramecetol safety so perplexing?

About this episode

The episode discusses a study on acetaminophen during pregnancy and its lack of link to autism.

Another study on acetaminophen (known as paramecetol in Denmark) on probability of having a child with autism, this one with over 1.5 million pregnant women, 31k who were exposed to acetaminophen. The HHS Secretary is calling it “garbage in and garbage out” because it showed no link, but in fact, it is a strong study that examined multiple confounding variables and addressed questions that had been unanswered previously. This podcast is short and so is the message: Tylenol, also known as acetaminophen or paramecetol, taken during pregnancy, does not cause autism. Period. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41973453

Topics covered

• health
• medicine
• science
• autism
• pregnancy

Keywords

• acetaminophen
• paramecetol
• autism
• pregnancy
• Tylenol
• study
• confounding variables
• HHS Secretary
• link
• exposure

Mentioned in this episode

Products: acetaminophen, Tylenol, paramecetol

Places: Denmark

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