Sentences with phrase «higher autism risk»

It would be useful to know if the association was dose - dependent (i.e. the more extreme the folate and B12 levels, the higher the autism risk), or was only observed for the group above this (seemingly arbitrary) cut - off.

«These results indicate that the higher autism risk may be due mainly to the large numbers of multiple births and complications of pregnancy and delivery among children conceived with ART,» said Christine Fountain, assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University and affiliated researcher at Columbia University.

Not exact matches

The children of older fathers have much higher risk of autism and other complications than those of younger ones do.

Previous studies have suggested that men who delay fatherhood run a (slightly) higher risk of having children who develop autism.

While the test is not a diagnosis, children with head lag have a higher risk of autism or other social or communication delays.

They have a higher risk of certain long - term health problems, including autism, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, lung problems, and vision and hearing loss.

But the fact is something in the genetic make up and hormones of baby boys expose them to a higher risk of autism than girls (for those who can not sleep without knowing so those weird medical terms, girls tend to have lower levels of vasopressin and higher levels of natural oxytocin).

New research from the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) identifies a potential biomarker that predicts atypical development in 1 - to 2 - month - old infants at high versus low familial risk for developing autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

«Predicting atypical development in infants at high risk for autism?.»

Higher amounts of the drug clonazepam, the benzodiazepine used in the experiment, did not alleviate autism symptoms and carried the risk of leading to lethargy.

The search for neurobiological markers that precede atypical trajectories is important in infants with a high risk for developing autism - related disorders because early recognition allows for early intervention and mitigation of difficulties later in life.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

«It wouldn't have been possible without the Internet,» says journalist Arthur Allen, who has covered the vaccine - autism story since 2002, when he wrote a high - profile New York Times Magazine article that took the thimerosal risk seriously.

A machine - learning program can tell from scans which high - risk infants will later show autism symptoms.

«Adults with autism at higher risk of sexual victimization, study shows.»

The risk of developing autism, according to one study, is more than 90 percent heritable because the concordance for autism is high in monozygotic twins and low in dizygotic twins.

The «National Autism Indicators Report: Transition into Young Adulthood» is a comprehensive report that presents new findings about a wide range of experiences and outcomes of youth on the autism spectrum between high school and their early 20s, including new safety and risk indicators for young adults with aAutism Indicators Report: Transition into Young Adulthood» is a comprehensive report that presents new findings about a wide range of experiences and outcomes of youth on the autism spectrum between high school and their early 20s, including new safety and risk indicators for young adults with aautism spectrum between high school and their early 20s, including new safety and risk indicators for young adults with autismautism.

High - risk infants had an older sibling already diagnosed with autism, increasing the infant's risk of also having the condition by 20 fold.

«Preemies at high risk of autism don't show typical signs of disorder in early infancy.»

In the new study, the researchers observed behavioral symptoms characteristic of autism in a particularly high - risk group of young children: those born prematurely.

The study was funded by a High Risk High Impact grant from the Autism Speaks Foundation.

A tool intended to detect signs of autism in high - risk infants can be used to help identify and treat patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder, who most need early intervention.

The research comes from the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS), a collaborative effort by investigators at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and four clinical sites in the United States, coordinated to conduct a longitudinal brain imaging and behavioural study of infants at high risk for autism.

Scientists used a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), known as diffusion weighted imaging, to measure the brain connectivity in 260 infants at the ages of 6 and 12 months, who had either high or low risks of autism.

Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

«This difficulty may be indicative of a broader deficit autism trait among most high - risk siblings.»

The results demonstrated the expected higher rates of autism in males compared to females, but also showed a significantly greater risk of autism for siblings of females with autism, compared to siblings of males with autism.

Previous studies have shown that low levels of initiating joint attention are linked to later autism symptoms in high - risk siblings.

The team found that genetic variants that contribute to higher scores on the Eyes Test also increase the risk for anorexia, but not autism.

To that end, his committee recommends researching whether some children, including those who may be genetically predisposed to autism, are at higher risk following certain vaccinations but in numbers too small to have shown up in previously.

Procreating late in life may sound risky; in fact, there is evidence that babies conceived by older couples are at higher risk of autism, schizophrenia, and Down syndrome.

Those in the high risk group had an older sibling already diagnosed with autism; those in the low risk group did not.

By age 3, some of the children — nearly all from the high risk group — had received a clinical diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder.

The team speculates that the «high - risk» autism genes they carry may generate other effects in these women.

In work not peer reviewed but presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research a group of scientists have reported a possible link between high levels of folate during pregnancy and a child's risk of aAutism Research a group of scientists have reported a possible link between high levels of folate during pregnancy and a child's risk of autismautism.

Initially applied to polygenic myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease risks, the methodology can now be applied to a range of high - impact disorders such as schizophrenia, Type 2 diabetes, autism, and cancer.

Functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) may predict which high - risk, 6 - month old infants will develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by age 2 years.

Researchers at four study sites nationwide used a type of MRI scan to look at brain development in the younger siblings of autistic children, who are known to be at higher risk for autism themselves.

Women had a 60 - percent higher risk of having a child with an autism spectrum disorder if they had lived closest to sites using insect killing chemicals known as organophosphates (Or - GAN - oh - FOSS - fates).

A more recent interest concerns infants and children at high risk for developing autism (such as those with an older sibling with autism or who have a particular genetic variance).

While very few studies have examined functional connectivity in young children and toddlers with autism (Dinstein et al., 2011), some have started to use structural measures to examine high - risk infants, including siblings of children with autism.

Researchers at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities tracking age - related issues of autism identified an increased risk of Parkinson's disease in this high - impact paper.

«Kids conceived through ICSI or in vitro fertilization [IVF] can have low birth weight and higher chance of heart and respiratory issues, and may be at a higher risk for autism or attention deficit hyperactivity,» Samadi added.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health presented a study last week that suggests that, in fact, there might be a connection between high levels of folate during a woman's pregnancy and the risk of her child developing autism.

Researchers found that in women who had very high levels of folate right after giving birth, the risk of their babies being diagnosed with autism...

These chronic low Vitamin D levels during pregnancy can lead to increased risk of cesarean, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and vaginal infection in the mother, and a higher risk of autism, mental disorders, infection, low birth weight, and heart / lung / brain problems among others.

Babies who are unusually small at birth have a higher - than - average risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) later in life, a new study suggests.

And last year, researchers at the MIND Institute reported that pregnant women who lived near fields where chemical pesticides were used had a roughly two - thirds higher risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder, and an even higher risk of having one with other developmental delays.

According to a study, women who did not take a prenatal vitamin each day before as well as throughout the 1st month of pregnancy had almost double the risk of having a child with an autism spectrum disorder compared to women who took a prenatal vitamin each day, and when coupled with a high - risk genetic makeup, the associated risk was 7 times greater.

Factors associated with a higher risk of autism include having parents older than 30, maternal illness during pregnancy, genetic mutations, birth before 37 weeks» gestation and a multiple birth.