Higher fluoride intake during pregnancy was associated with lower IQ scores in boys, a Canadian study found.
Among 512 mother-child pairs, each 1-mg/L increase in maternal urinary fluoride concentration was associated with a decrease of 4.49 (95% CI -8.4 to -0.6) Full Scale IQ points for boys at 3 to 4 years after adjusting for demographic and quality-of-home variables, reported Christine Till, PhD, of York University in Toronto, and colleagues.
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