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Sibling spacing may be tied to autism risk: study
Seeded on Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:51 AM EST
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hildren who are born only a year or so after an older sibling appear to be more likely to be diagnosed with autism than siblings with a bigger age gap, surprising new research suggests.
The study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics, is preliminary and the authors say more research is needed to confirm the finding. But the study is a large one, based on more than a half-million children, which reduces the likelihood that the findings were based on chance.
The study looked at births from 1992 through 2002 in California. The researchers looked at second-born children born to the same parents whose older siblings didn't have autism.
They found the overall prevalence of autism was less than one per cent in the study. But they found that the sooner the second child was conceived, the great
#1 - Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:52 AM ESTHI scott. good article, but my first reaction is "baloney".
none of the criteria applies in my family. I was an only. my mom the middle, and my son the first. I don't think birth spacing has anything to do with it.
I think this study was done to take our minds of of vaccines, which were also baloney.
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#2 - Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:18 PM ESThi ice. you may be right - i think it'll be a while before they figure things out - i'm doubtful there will be just one factor - i think it'll be a combination of factors. meanwhile i think i'm interviewing this author who has a book about the vaccine myth and how it's still affecting people today.
Thanks scott, I appreciate the info.
Here is my theory.
The brain needs fat and other things to develop properly. What if, with our refined diet full of empty calories and no-fat foods, it causes an imballance in the way the brain is structured. With a person having the gene for autism, the diet throws the brain out of whack, debillitating on many different levels.
What do you think?
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its possible - i've heard much crazier ideas and theories
i do think the environmental factors will be something like that, something that has changed in recent years like the food supply changes
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Here is another one off the deep end,
we are so connected to our environment that with the advent of overcrowding and it's consequences, the human gene mutates and we end up with autism, as a way to cope. regular people destroy each other, and we autists inherit the earth. :)
I'm so full of "baloney" today, but there is always "what if..."
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