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 Age difference between parents increases the risk of autism


Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevcan Karakoç Demirkaya pointed out that stress, malnutrition and environmental pollution triggered autism. Demirkaya said: “Age difference between parents increases the risk of autism.”


Sorted the proven environmental risk factors associated with autism, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevcan Karakoç Demirkaya stated: “Having siblings with autism, having parents with a history of schizophrenia-like disorder, maternal age over 40 and/or paternal age over 40, very early age of grandfather (mother's father) age, age difference between parents increase the risk of autism.”

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