Gestational Diabetes May Raise A Child’s Risk For Autism.

he study, published April 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which looked at “more than 322,000 children born between 1995 and 2009,” found “no increase in autism risk if mothers were diagnosed with diabetes after 26 weeks of pregnancy.” It also revealed “no increased risk of autism if women had type 2 diabetes before becoming pregnant, possibly because these women already had their blood sugar under control.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/14/gestational-diabetes-autism-risk/25584265/