Soy infant formula and seizures in children with autism: A retrospective study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Westmark, Cara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOESTROGEN; SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ATONIC SEIZURE; AUTISM; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SOYBEAN MILK; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; MEDICAL RECORD; SEIZURES;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SOYBEAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84898000747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080488     Document Type: Article

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