Paternal obesity doubles the risk of having an autistic child, a greater increase than that associated with paternal age of 50 or older.

“men with obesity twice as likely to have an autistic child as men who are not obese”

“women with obesity have doubled the risk of having an autistic child”

“Men with obesity, twice as likely to have an autistic child as men who are not obese. Yeah, which is something like 25 times greater than the increase due to age of the male.”