“…Finally, 16 papers with a combined cohort size of 756 365 children were considered in the present study: seven on mental development (12,14,19,20,24,34,35) and, or on motor development (14,19,20,24), and nine on ASD (17,18,23,(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40). As can be seen in Tables 1 and 2, two studies were RCTs (34,35), three were case-control studies (36,37,41) and the other 11 were from population-based cohorts (12,14,(17)(18)(19)(20)23,24,(38)(39)(40).…”