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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[–] 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.