Risk factors for autism and Asperger syndrome: Perinatal factors and migration

Autism

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-183

  Haglund, Nils G S ^a,c   Källén, Karin B M ^b  

^a Malmoe Child and Youth Habilitation Center   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUND   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; autism; migration; perinatal factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EASTERN EUROPE; FAR EAST; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MACROSOMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; OBSTETRICS; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; APGAR SCORE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAR EAST; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MACROSOMIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954488940     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: 14617005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361309353614     Document Type: Article

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