Paternal Obesity
The obesity-related increase in autism risk for fathers is approximately 25 times greater than the increase associated with advanced paternal age. Paternal obesity in men in their twenties or thirties has a substantially higher autism corr…
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The obesity-related increase in autism risk for fathers is approximately 25 times greater than the increase associated with advanced paternal age. Paternal obesity in men in their twenties or thirties has a substantially higher autism correlation than the age effect. Fathers with obesity are twice as likely to have autistic children compared with fathers without obesity.