Spacing of children may have effect on autism

A new preliminary study released this week suggests that closer spacing of births and autism risk may be linked. The study took into account numerous understood risk factors of autism. Even with these factors, the study showed surprising results. Autism is a big risk if siblings are born within 2 yrs of one another. If you are able to take out a payday loans to purchase birth control and wait for one more child, it might just prove to be worth it.

Half a million children in California studied for autism

The journal Pediatrics had a study come out today. About 500,000 Californian children were included in it. The researchers adjusted the numbers of children and families with autism for a wide variety of factors. Factors included age of the parents, family health and autism severity. A risk for autism is increased with how close children are to one another. If they are born within two years of one another, this risk goes up.

Increasing numbers of closely spaced children

Other factors were looked at in the birth spacing connection to autism. The increasing numbers of autism in the last few years could be directly linked to children being born closer together. In 1995, 11 percent of all births were considered “closely spaced.”. In 2002, 18 percent of births were closely spaced. Autism-spectrum disorder was what one in every 91 births in 2009 were. That is a huge rise in the number of cases of autism. Many say that improved diagnosis procedures are the only reason why there has been an increase in these numbers.

Studies of birth spacing and autism may continue

The researchers may very well be making the wrong conclusions although half a million children in California and other risk factors were all being observed. There definitely needs to be more research done on the subject. Even the researchers will admit to that. Older parents have an increased risk for an autistic child as well although there are also more closely spaced children for older parents. It is an odd time for this new study to come out. This is because the vaccinations and autism risk connection was just discredited.

Citations

Chicago Tribune

chicagotribune.com/health/sns-ap-med-autism-birth-spacing-,0,628142.story?track=rss

Boston.com

boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/01/10/study_links_autism_risk_to_birth_spacing/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+–+National+News