New massive study on Autism risks completed

[nicehat]

 

 

 

A massive study on autism risk study found elevations related to parental age of both teen moms and older parents. Here are some pertinent points of the study:

 

• Study included 5.7 MILLION children in 5 countries
• 66% higher autism rates among children born to dads over the age of 50 than those in their 20s
• 28% higher for dads in their 40s
• 18% higher with teen moms than those with moms in their 20s

Also, autism rates were 15% higher in children born to mothers in their 40s, and higher than usual when there were wide gaps of 10 years or more bw parents. 

 

 “Although parental age is a risk factor for autism, it is important to remember that, overall, the majority of children born to older or younger parents will develop normally,” says the doctor, a medical epidemiologist with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute

 

“Risk doesn’t mean cause,” he notes. “These are risk factors helping us to understand ideological pathways — but not a cause in itself.”

 

 

 

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201570a.html

[ImBleu]

What about the vaccines???!?!?!? Those cause autism too right?

 

 

 

/s

[AlwaysFSX]

• 66% higher autism rates among children born to dads over the age of 50 than those in their 20s
• 28% higher for dads in their 40s
• 18% higher with teen moms than those with moms in their 20s

Also, autism rates were 15% higher in children born to mothers in their 40s, and higher than usual when there were wide gaps of 10 years or more bw parents.

I thought this was common knowledge already?

[AlwaysFSX]

I wouldn't say common knowledge, but definitely predictable.

I've been told this since I was like 5 that you shouldn't have kids when you're older because there's a higher risk for genetic defects because of the genetic deterioration in the parent's bodies.

[Mattrixx]

NO!!! VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM!!1!!!!!!!11

 

 

Sarcasm. So much f**king sarcasm.

[AlwaysFSX]

I thought you you were just talking about autism, not genetic defects in general. And 5? I wasn't told this until I was like 11 lol

Yeah my parents have told me a lot of things when I was young. I've always thought that most people knew. Comes up later and what do you know, they were right.

[stconquest]

I honestly don't think there's a real trend to autism. It's one of those things that just happens and when it does, you just embrace it.

 

No, you don't just embrace it.  Embracing the scope of a problem means you should work to solve it. 

[stconquest]

Just out of curiosity, how many of you guys have taken Gardasil?

[KemoKa]

Just out of curiosity, how many of you guys have taken Gardasil?

Side effects may include... I'm guessing more time than the actual commercial?

[stconquest]

Although autism is technically a genetic disorder, I don't think it should be treated as a pressing problem. Some of the smartest people have autism.

 

High functioning autistic individuals, sure.  There are a good number of more severely autistic people.  Like anything else, it should be understood. 

 

 

Side effects may include... I'm guessing more time than the actual commercial?

 

I was more tuning it to the vaccine conspiracy mocking.  Sure, there are good vaccines (mumps, measles, polio, diphtheria, etc..) ... but then we have the crap like anit-herpes vaccines (Gardasil) marketed as anti cancer treatments.  Canadians spent $300,000,000 on that shit... nobody was asked.  It is recently being marketed as anti throat & mouth cancer for young boys.

 

IDK, but I try not to stick my tongue in bad places... seems like a better solution.