Obesity and diabetes may lead to psychiatric disorders

Sunday, August 12, 2018
A new study has tied severe obesity and diabetes to a higher risk of disorders on the autism spectrum.

Researchers in Sweden looked at data on nearly 650,000 births between 2004 and 2014.
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They then followed the children up to the age of 11.

They found that those mothers who were severely obese were 67-percent more likely to have children with mood and stress disorders.

Those with pre-diabetes were more than six times as likely to have children with ADHD or autism.
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