Archived Mothers who are obese, diabetic are 4x more likely to have children with autism (hub.jhu.edu)
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Archived Mothers who are obese, diabetic are 4x more likely to have children with autism (hub.jhu.edu)
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[–] Super_Cooper 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago (edited ago)
The study isn't saying that autistic children only come from obese or diabetic mothers. It's saying that women with these conditions are more likely to give birth to autistic children.
[–] tomlinas 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
400% more likely, in fact. Consider that we know that using tobacco is a really bad health choice, and tobacoo generally increases the baseline risk of cancer by 200% (more or less and depending on cancer type), and you see yet another reason why obesity costs us more every year than tobacco now.