Most Autism Risk factors are associated with low vitamin D

How to Think About the Risk of Autism

New York Times March 29, 2014

No mention of vitamin D in the article

VitaminDWiki has highlighted those autism risk factors in the NYT article which are also associated with low levels of Vitamin D

See also VitaminDWiki

• Overview Autism and vitamin D

• Having twins takes more vitamin D - May 2011

• Premature birth 2.5X more likely if mother had low vitamin D and was having twins – July 2013

• Air pollution while pregnant reduced vitamin D level in infant – Aug 2012

• Risk of Cesarean 2X higher if low vitamin D – April 2012

  • Cesarean was mentioned in the text of the NY Times article

• Depression 50 percent more likely if low vitamin D in early pregnancy – Aug 2012

• Smoking while pregnant lowers vitamin D and increases child asthma by 3.6 X – Aug 2011

  • Smoking was not mentioned in the NY Times article

• Genetics category listing - strong interaction between Genetics and low vitamin D,

  • author of NYT article believes that Genetics may be the strongest link to Autism

• Autistic measure 5X more likely if low vitamin D in second trimester – Oct 2012

• Autism 3X more likely after closely spaced pregnancy vs 3 year apart– Jan 2011

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See also web

• STUDY SHOWING GENETIC LINK TO AUTISM COULD EXPAND TREATMENT OPTIONS July 2014
  • Subtype of autistic childen all had CHD8 mutation , Zebra fish given CHD8 mutation had the same symptoms
  • Subtype: symptoms such as gastrointestinal disorders, a large head, and wide set eyes.

• Autism on TedTalk March 2014
  • good background, nothing about vitamin D, the following chart shows the 200-400 genes associated with different forms of autism