provides recent research that mothers at risk of pre-eclampsia or high blood pressure during pregnancy are children carrying a large period twice as is the case with autism spectrum disorders, or called for a more intimate and autism.
However, I discovered a recent study conducted in the United States in southern California when the mother also experienced an increase in blood sugar during pregnancy or “gestational diabetes”, and then the birth of a child is also likely carry autism.
“, and as an example, it is estimated that there are seven new cases of autism per 1,000 births to mothers who have early symptoms of diabetes gestational in our show,” said the researcher, Annie Chiang as quoted by CBS News,
is obtained this figure Xiang after observing more than 320,000 children were born in the period 1995-2009 year at hospitals owned by Kaiser, southern California. The diagnosis of 5.5 years, there were 3388 children with autism spectrum.
closer examination, it is known that children exposed to gestational diabetes during pregnancy 26 weeks at risk of autism are more than 42 percent of children who are not exposed to the same conditions, even after taking researchers into account other risk factors such as maternal age factors during pregnancy, the level of education as well as their weight.
on the contrary, continued to Xiang, but they did not find any increased risk of autism in children who have had type 2 diabetes mellitus before pregnancy.
“Maybe the mother who already have diabetes before pregnancy tend to be able to control their blood sugar than those in connection with the sugar during pregnancy,” he said.
Chiang also can only surmise that high blood sugar levels in the mother during pregnancy would interfere with brain development of the child in the crucial period. It is the same if the mother also has high blood pressure or high blood pressure during the middle of the two entities.
only Xiang stressed that from his observations that can not confirm a causal relationship is directly between diabetes during pregnancy and autism in children.
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Diabetes during pregnancy can cause a child to develop autism