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Children, teens, and adults with Down syndrome also need the same regular medical care as those without the condition, from well-baby visits and routine vaccinations as infants to reproductive counseling and cardiovascular care later in life.
Risk factors include: 1  Advancing maternal age. 2  A woman's chances of giving birth to a child with Down syndrome increase with age because older eggs have a greater risk of improper chromosome division. 3  By age 35, a woman's risk of conceiving a child with Down syndrome is about 1 in 350.