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Does Autism Diagnosis Age or Symptom Severity Differ Among Children According to Whether Assisted Reproductive Technology was Used to Achieve Pregnancy?
- Source :
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer US, 2015.
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Abstract
- Previous studies report associations between conception with assisted reproductive technology (ART) and autism. Whether these associations reflect an ascertainment or biologic effect is undetermined. We assessed diagnosis age and initial autism symptom severity among >30,000 children with autism from a linkage study of California Department of Developmental Services records, birth records, and the National ART Surveillance System. Median diagnosis age and symptom severity levels were significantly lower for ART-conceived than non-ART-conceived children. After adjustment for differences in the socio-demographic profiles of the two groups, the diagnosis age differentials were greatly attenuated and there were no differences in autism symptomatology. Thus, ascertainment issues related to SES, not ART per se, are likely the driving influence of the differences we initially observed.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Adolescent
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
medicine.medical_treatment
Symptom severity
Pregnancy
medicine
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
Autistic Disorder
Child
Socioeconomic status
Original Paper
Assisted reproductive technology
Diagnosis age
Age differences
business.industry
Public health
Infantile autism
medicine.disease
3. Good health
Autism
Female
Birth records
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15733432 and 01623257
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c9712f66dd4a6a2fe757653a30df2d08