Kids who are conceived during winter are more likely to have autism, found in a study.

The risk of having a child with an autism spectrum disorder grew progressively throughout the fall and winter to early spring, with children conceived in March having a 16 percent greater risk of later autism diagnoses, when compared with July conceptions.
The researchers said the finding suggested that environmental factors, for example, exposure to seasonal viruses like influenza, might play a role in the greater risk they found of children conceived during the winter having autism.
"The study finding was pronounced even after adjusting for factors such as maternal education, race /ethnicity, and the child's year of conception," said lead study author Ousseny Zerbo, a fifth-year doctoral student in the graduate group in epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences in the UC Davis School of Medicine.
The study has been published in the journal Epidemiology.
Source-ANI