[WATCH]: Obesity During Pregnancy Linked to Higher Risk of Autism

Transcript by www.newsy.com BY STACEY WELSH ANCHOR LAUREN GORES A new study suggests obesity during pregnancy increases the risk of having a child with autism. TIME breaks it down. "Obese mothers were 67% more likely than mothers of normal weight and with no metabolic disorders to have a child with autism, and they were more than twice as likely to have a child with another developmental disorder." Researchers at the UC Davis made the discovery — finding nearly half of the one thousand children participating in the study had an autism disorder. Fox News spoke with a doctor to clarify one reason why a mother's weight during pregnancy affects the baby's risk for autism. "DR. MARC SIEGEL Maybe when you're obese you need to make more

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