Rapid family can lead to autism
According to one particular websites, the American Academy of pediatrics, having a second child too close to
another gives rise to a much larger chance of autism. The general consensus is that less than two years increases the risk.
It was previously thought that older parents gave rise to this condition however recent study has demonstrated that parental age is irrelevant. Peter Bearman of Columbia University, New York has made this recent study available, and has explored all avenues to authenticate the results.
The study is not yet complete, and Peter Bearman says he needs to complete many more studies to verify the results completely. But it would seem that despite many contradictory factors the birth spacing link appears to be the most common cause.
Government statistics have shown that more babies are being produced less than two years apart and has risen from 11% in 1995 to 18% in 2002.
There has been much controversy over an earlier British report in 1998 where vaccine was the common link to autism, and this study in the journal Pediatrics and is new report is a direct attack on the previous study.
As yet it is difficult to say why this should happen, but is much more evident when there are two children of very similar ages where the development of a younger child is significantly slower. There have been other reasons for this to happen, and has been explained in the past as rivalry for parental time.
This study is used data from 1992 to 2002, California focusing on older children but didn’t have autism but that autism was present in the youngest, and this is shown by California state’s Department of developmental services.
Although further research is still very necessary it is believed that a particular form of vitamin B. is quite possibly lacking in the mother both before and during pregnancy, most possibly having been depleted with the recent childbirth.
Thanks to news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org
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