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AUTISM IN CHILDREN AND CORRELATES IN LEBANON: A PILOT CASE-CONTROL STUDY

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  119-124

Abstract

 Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder typically ap-pearing before the age of three. The exact cause of autism remains uncertain, and sev-eral factors may be involved in its onset: genetic factors and possible environmental factors. The aim of this study was to assess the correlates of autism in the Lebanese population.Methods: We investigated the association of autism with several factors in 86 autism cases from specialized schools for children with developmental disabilities and 172 con-trol children from regular public schools in the same regions. Several RISK FACTORS for au-tism were investigated after comparison with a cohort control on parental age, sex, ma-ternal unhappy feeling during pregnancy, consanguineous marriage, and province of residence. The Chi-square test was used to compare nominal variables, and Fisher ex-act test was used in case expected values within cells were inferior to five. For quantita-tive variables, we used t -test to compare means between two groups, after checking their distribution normality. For multivariate analysis, we used a forward stepwise likeli-hood ratio logistic regression.Results: We observed male predominance (79.1%) among autistic infants. There was a significant association between autism and older parents age (OR=1.27), male sex (OR=3.38), unhappy maternal feeling during pregnancy (OR=5.77), living close to indus-try (OR=6.58), previous childhood infection (OR=8.85), but none concerning maternal age, paternal age and CONSANGUINITY.Conclusions: In this pilot epidemiological study of autism in LEBANON, we found several prenatal and perinatal RISK FACTORS for autism that could be modified.

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    HAMADE, ALINE, SALAMEH, PASCALE, MEDLEJ HASHIM, MYRNA, HAJJ MOUSSA, ELIE, SAADALLAH ZEIDAN, NINA, & RIZK, FRANCINE. (2013). AUTISM IN CHILDREN AND CORRELATES IN LEBANON: A PILOT CASE-CONTROL STUDY. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN HEALTH SCIENCES (JRHS), 13(2), 119-124. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/301466/en

    Vancouver: Copy

    HAMADE ALINE, SALAMEH PASCALE, MEDLEJ HASHIM MYRNA, HAJJ MOUSSA ELIE, SAADALLAH ZEIDAN NINA, RIZK FRANCINE. AUTISM IN CHILDREN AND CORRELATES IN LEBANON: A PILOT CASE-CONTROL STUDY. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN HEALTH SCIENCES (JRHS)[Internet]. 2013;13(2):119-124. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/301466/en

    IEEE: Copy

    ALINE HAMADE, PASCALE SALAMEH, MYRNA MEDLEJ HASHIM, ELIE HAJJ MOUSSA, NINA SAADALLAH ZEIDAN, and FRANCINE RIZK, “AUTISM IN CHILDREN AND CORRELATES IN LEBANON: A PILOT CASE-CONTROL STUDY,” JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN HEALTH SCIENCES (JRHS), vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 119–124, 2013, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/301466/en

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