Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0584 |
| Title: | Obstetric complications in individuals diagnosed with autism and in healthy controls |
| Author(s): | Stein D, Weizman A, Ring A, Barak Y, Joner G; Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Study Group, Stuver SO, Hsieh C |
| Reference: | Compr Psychiatry. 2006 Jan-Feb;47(1):69-75 |
| Place of Study: | Israel |
| Abstract: | The aim of the present study was to investigate birth complications in Israeli autistic probands. The authors interviewed 206 mothers of autistic probands and 152 healthy control mothers with a structured tool encompassing prenatal, perinatal, and neonatal complications. Analysis of obstetric suboptimality, derived by summing all positive items of each of the 3 categories and dividing them by the number of patients analyzed, revealed no prenatal between-group difference. The controls had a somewhat elevated perinatal suboptimality score, whereas the autistic probands had a significantly greater neonatal suboptimality score. These differences in obstetric suboptimality were retained after controlling for the demographic parameters found different between the 2 groups (sex of participants and mothers' years of schooling). |
| Keyword(s): | autism, autistic spectrum disorder, birth complications, labour induction, paternal age, pre-eclampsia, preeclampsia, Rhesus-immunization, vaccination |
| Discussion: | No discussion mentioned for this entry |
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