Perinatal and background risk factors for childhood autism in central China

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 410-417

  Duan, Guiqin ^b   Yao, Meiling ^b   Ma, Yating ^a   Zhang, Wenjing ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Central China; Childhood autism; Perinatal risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD AUTISM RATING SCALE; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DSM-IV; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; INTROVERSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COMPLICATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROCEDURES; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84908240204     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.05.057     Document Type: Article

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