Association between emergency caesarean section, earlier order of birth, high parental age gap and autism spectrum disorder among Malaysian children: a case-control study

• Main Authors: Galvan, Jo Ann Andoy, Ramalingam, Prabhagari Nair, Patil, Sapna Shridhar, Shobri, Muhammad Aminul Syahmi, Chidambaram, Kumarappan, Sahrir, Muhammad Sabri, Chinna, Karuthan
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2019
• Subjects: LC Special aspects of education; RD93 Emergency Surgery. Wounds and Injuries
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/80309/1/PROCEEDINGS%20ACHP%202019.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/80309/; https://conferences.cseap.edu.my/achp2019/#top

A rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the last decades led recent research to focus on the diagnosis comparing environmental and genetic factors. This paper sought for possible factors that put children at risk for ASD. We investigated the association of ASD with the following ind...