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Birth Spacing May Raise Autism Risk

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A study looks into the number of years that children are born apart and how that affects the risk of autism:

"Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children.

Children born less than two years after their siblings were considerably more likely to have an autism diagnosis compared to those born after at least three years.

The sooner the second child was conceived the greater the likelihood of that child later being diagnosed with autism. The effect was found for parents of all ages, decreasing the chance that it was older parents and not the birth spacing behind the higher risk."

Read More: http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_17052059?nclick_check=1

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