Study: Pregnancy Spacing Tied to Autism Risk

October 3, 2014

To conduct their study, researchers analyzed data on more than 7,300 children born in Finland between 1987 and 2005. About one-third of the children in the study had been diagnosed with autism. Compared to children conceived two to five years after the birth of a sibling, the autism risk was 50 percent higher for babies conceived less than a year after. Among those children conceived five to ten years after,…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

Her decision to switch gears to pursue a career in writing fulfilled a lifelong ambition. She started as a blogger for a diverse group of businesses, and now writes for a number of digital publications for companies stationed in her hometown in the Rocky Mountains, and provides advertising copy and media buys for national and regional clients. She finds the research as intersting as the writing—she loves learning about subjects as diverse as construction scaffolding, child safety seats, and the newest trends in beauty and fashion.