Children autism

According to extensive research conducted in the United States, a mature age of the mother increases the risk of autism in a child, regardless of age of his father.

Scientists have shown that increasing maternal age by 5 years is associated with increased risk of autism in children by 18%. Thus, for a woman who became a mother at the age of 40 years, the risk of birth of child with autism is 100% higher than in women in 25 years of age.