baker and his colleagues are cautious about their results first because the data do not allow clear whether it was the anesthesia that related to the offspring ' s learning budgetary , or else it was an underlying cause that may have required surgery and precipitous the developmental issues . of the more than 5 , 000 newborn studying , 593 necessary at least 2 surgery and just over 100 adults needed more than two before age 3 . there may be something unusual about this population of participants that might have made them vulnerable to learning problems and required they underwent treatment and anesthesia .
Anesthesia causes learning disabilities.