Women with larger waists are more likely to have children with autism, study finds

Women who have an unhealthily wide waistline before pregnancy are more likely to deliver a baby with autism, major new research suggests.

While previous research has found no link between autism and pre-motherhood obesity, every study to date has used body mass index as the primary metric, which does not discriminate between fat and lean mass.

Switching to assess waist circumference, Northwestern University researchers found a clear correlation between obesity in young women and autism in the children they had years later.

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