Question

Is there a relationship between Diabetes and Autism?

Answer 1

The risk of autism is associated with several prenatal risk factors, including advanced age in either parent, and diabetes, bleeding, and use of psychiatric drugs in the mother during pregnancy. Autism has been linked to birth defect agents acting during the first eight weeks from conception, though these cases are rare. Chromosomal birth defects increase with age. As a women ages, her eggs in her ovaries age with her and are more prone to genetic abnormalities. The debate over the recent increase in autism leads many researchers to suspect a correlation between older-age pregnancies and autism. A study reported in the BBC indicates that complications during pregnancy and giving birth later in life may increase the risk of having a child with autism. But researchers can not conclude about the relationship between maternal/paternal age of parents and autism because age is a very difficult element to isolate for in retrospective studies.

Choosing to become an older-age parent is a very personal decision and with proper analysis of the risks to both mom and baby it can result in a healthy pregnancy and baby.

Answer 2

interesting. How many autistic people do you know that are diabeteic compared to the number of people that are autistic and not diabetic and how do those number relate to the number of diabetic people in the general population?