Age linked with Autism

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A big study out of California is linking a woman’s age with whether or not she’ll have a child with autism.

A university of California Davis health system study found that advanced maternal age is linked to a significantly elevated risk of having a child with autism, regardless of the father’s age.

The study finds that incremental risk of having a child with autism increased by eighteen-percent for every five-year increase in the mother’s age.

So a forty-year-old woman’s risk of having a child later diagnosed with autism was fifty-percent greater than that of a woman between twenty-five and twenty-nine years old.

The data compiled from a study of all the births in California during the nineteen-nineties.

The study appears in the February issue of the Journal, Autism Research.