Children born to older mothers at higher risk for autism

[kelvin070]

Anyone here with autistic kids? My relative has one adopted kid.

Women who give birth after age 40 face a higher risk of having an autistic child, regardless of the father's age, according to a comprehensive study of all births in the state of California in the 1990s.

While previous studies have shown that a father's advanced age can also increase autism risk, this study found that, for women over age 30, the father's age makes no difference. It is only when men over age 40 parent children with women age 30 or younger than the father's age increases autism risk, researchers found. When women under age 25 fathered children with men over 40, for example, their children faced double the risk of being diagnosed as autistic compared with children born to a mother under age 25 and a father between ages 25 and 29.

Read more: http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2010/02/08/children-born-to-older-mothers-at-higher-risk-for-autism/#ixzz0f252yhjY

 

[Jessica]

wow didn't know that...