Kids of Obese, Diabetic Moms at Four Times Greater Risk for Autism [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 2/2/164:00 AM

Children born to obese mothers with diabetes have more than four times the risk of developing autism spectrum disorder than children of healthy weight moms without diabetes, according to a new study at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, add to the growing body of information that the risk for autism likely develops before the child is even born.

[For more of this story, written by Traci Pedersen, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2...or-autism/98427.html]

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