Perinatal factors and the development of autism: A population study

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 618-627

  Glasson, Emma J ^a,b,c   Bower, Carol ^b   Petterson, Beverly ^b,d   De Klerk, Nick ^b   Chaney, Gervase ^e   Hallmayer, Joachim F ^a,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c GRAYLANDS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Disability Services Commission   (Australia)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUSTRALIA; AUTISM; BIRTH; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; OBSTETRICS; PARENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; SIBLING;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; APGAR SCORE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIRTH ORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, INDUCED; MATERNAL AGE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 2942529375     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.61.6.618     Document Type: Article

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