Why are autism rates in the US so high? Experts explain what’s driving the ‘crisis’

It seems to have a global division in autism.

In the midst of a balloon autism crisis, the US is said to suffer from one of 31 children, the highest rate in the world and an increase in one out of 150 children in 2000.

However, in Atlantic, comparable countries such as France and Germany recorded only one in 100 cases, while in Sweden, ate 1,000 in 1,000. The difference is less sharp in Canada and the UK with a ratio of approximately 1 in 50.

Experts said Daily Mail, how the division was identified and diagnosed and diagnosed and a more clear attitude in the US rather than drugs or pollutants, health secretary Robert F Kennedy JR and President Donald Trump said.

On Monday, President and Senior Health officials claimed at a press conference The fact that waiting mothers do not take tylenol or acetaminophen, increases the risk of diagnosis of autism to their children.

Nevertheless, experts said that this is not all painting, some of them play the role of America’s higher obesity, and now fading drug outbreak.

The population of growing elderly mothers can play a role in connection with a higher risk of autism, more than 30 pregnancy.

Dr Jeff Singer, a senior member at the Cato Institute at the Department of Health Policy Studies, said to his website: ‘There is no reason why people in the UK or Canada or Australia are different from the United States.

‘Many of them are about medicine and about different health systems.’

In a comprehensive question-answer session, Trump also gave to journalists by giving the visible division in the rates between America and other countries: ‘I hear that Cuba does not have [Tylenol] Because it’s too expensive. They don’t have Tylenols and I hear that they don’t actually have autism. ‘

A 2022 Studies The recommended proposed Cuba has 2 to 4 autism rate in some environments. However, experts warn that these figures probably reflect an inadequate diagnosis due to limited surveillance in the country. The active drug in Tylenol is located locally known as paracetamol, Acetaminophen is present in the country and is generally recommended to pregnant women, although it is generally insufficient.

Autism is a neurodeficial situation that affects how a person communicates, interacts with others and experiences the world.

In the 1970s, the only person who was diagnosed with the situation was those who had serious communication difficulties, often struggling to talk and interact with others.

In recent years, however, the definition has been expanded to include the difficulties in reading limited interests, recurrent behaviors and social clues.

In the midst of shifts, many countries have increased autism rates, and boys tend to be at least twice as much as the likelihood of being diagnosed as girls.

However, experts point out that the increase is more pronounced in the US, which now uses a wider definition of autism than Europe.

In Europe, most countries use the ICD-11 definition, which is more restrictive and requires patients to have both unusual permanent problems with social interaction and a series of recurrent, non-flexible behavior patterns.

However, in the USA, doctors use the DSM-5 system, which will diagnose a patient with autism if they have only one of these behaviors and only one of these behaviors.

As a result, Dr Singer is that it is possible to never be diagnosed if children diagnosed with autism in the USA can never be diagnosed if they live in Europe.

The US also has a much more strict scanning for autism, American children have passed through a comprehensive security network, teachers, school counselors and pediatricians are routinely controlling signs of the situation.

The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that all children be screened for autism in the 18th and 24th months.

However, experts in many European countries say that watching is not so tight and there are less opportunities to capture children in the spectrum.

What Britain, Germany or France have no universal screening instructions for autism, they said that British doctors only expressed concerns by parents to check the situation.

Experts also pointed out the division between the US and wider European population to potentially explain different autism rates.

The United States has a much higher obesity rate in 40 percent of adults compared to European countries, 26 percent in the UK, 20 percent in Germany and 17 percent in France.

And this moved to pregnant women, 2024 Studies It was obese in Europe compared to 12.1 percent in Europe to estimate that 18.7 percent of pregnant women in North America are obese.

It is already known that obesity during pregnancy increases the risk of dead birth and heart defects in infants. In addition, pregnancy in mothers increases the risk of diabetes, which may cause infants to have an enlarged heart or have problems during birth.

Trump was depicted above at a press conference yesterday

However, the studies also have an obese mother and a child has a higher probability of developing autism. A 2024 paper For example, he warned from Australia that mothers who were obese during pregnancy have a risk of having an autism child compared to non -obese.

He is a pain expert in New York. Randa Jaafar said: ‘Obesity affects how the brain develops and blood sugar regulation. If blood sugar is high, even if it has not yet entered diabetes, they can all affect the baby’s brain. ‘

Some experts suggested Daily Mail that increasing mother ages may be behind higher autism rates in young adults.

Many studies have associated pregnancy with a higher risk of autism in a baby after the age of 30, and after the age of 40, the risk of having a child with an autism was up to 81 percent higher in the late 20s.

It is not clear why this is, but scientists have argued that it may be linked to additional time, that is, mothers will be able to damage DNA, which increases the risk of DNA in the egg cell, exposed to more environmental toxin, such as pollutants or heavy metals.

Dr Singer said: ‘We know that there is a risk of chromosomal abnormality and autism in the mid -30s, especially in women over 35 years. In the USA, one of the five pregnancys in 2023 was women over 35 years of age, it has to play this role. ‘

However, the data show that both American and European mothers are roughly aging at the same rate.

In the USA, women aged 30 to 39 years, 47 percent of all live births, four percent of the births compared to women aged 40 years and older, the biggest share of births.

For comparison in the EU, estimates show that more than half of the births are 30 years and older, and about six percent of the births are 40 years and older.

Experts have returned to their claims that taking Tylenol or acetaminophen increases the risk of autism in children.

Drugs are widely used on both sides of the Atlantic, known as paracetamol in the UK, and a series of studies proposed a connection between two conditions. However, others claimed that there was no connection.

Dr Singer said: ‘This is a reasonable question to be asked. We know that there are many substances that can cause problems during pregnancy; Nobody deny it.

‘American experts examined the literature and pointed out that everything was a change; High fever during pregnancy is also risky.

“ I can say that it is useless to get the weight of the federal government. We are on it, we investigate, my message to politicians, please not to participate. ‘