The relationship of the mother's diabetes and autism for children .. a study that improves the hypothesis
Researchers have said that a new extensive study has reinforced the evidence that diabetes was linked during pregnancy to an increased risk of brain and nervous system problems in children, including autism. It is not yet clear whether diabetes has caused these problems. But when mothers have diabetes during pregnancy, the possibility of children with nervous growth disorder increases by 28%, according to the analysis of data collected from 202 previous studies that included more than 56 million pairs of mothers and children. The possibility of autism increased to 25%in children born to mothers with diabetes during pregnancy, and the possibility of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder up to 30%, while the risk of mental disability reached 32%. The risk of having communication problems was 20%higher, and problems with movement 17%, and leather disorders 16%compared to children whose mothers did not have diabetes during pregnancy. The researchers have in the journal “Lancet for Diabetes and Endocrine and Endocrinology, that diabetes diagnosed before pregnancy increase the risk of one or more nervous growth weather, compared to pregnancy diabetes that starts during pregnancy, and often disappears. or to understand mechanisms behind them. “