Growth of head circumference in autistic infants during the first year of life

被引：39

作者：

Fukumoto, Aya ^{[1
]}

Hashimoto, Toshiaki ^{[1
,2
]}

Ito, Hiromichi ^{[1
]}

Nishimura, Mio ^{[1
,3
]}

Tsuda, Yoshimi ^{[1
,2
]}

Miyazaki, Masahito ^{[1
]}

Mori, Kenji ^{[1
]}

Arisawa, Kokichi ^{[4
]}

Kagami, Shoji ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Tokushima, Grad Sch, Dept Pediat, Div Human Dev & Hlth Sci Subdiv Human Dev, Tokushima 7708503, Japan

[2] Naruto Univ Educ, Dept Special Support Educ, Naruto, Tokushima 772, Japan

[3] Hinomine Med Ctr, Dept Pediat, Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan

[4] Univ Tokushima, Grad Sch, Inst Hlth Biosci, Dept Prevent Med, Tokushima 770, Japan

来源：

JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS | 2008年 / 38卷 / 03期

关键词：

autism; head circumference; body length; body weight; Mother-and-baby" notebook; infant physical growth;

D O I：

10.1007/s10803-007-0405-1

中图分类号：

B844 [发展心理学（人类心理学）];

学科分类号：

040202 ;

摘要：

This study analyzed the increase in head circumference (HC) of 85 autistic infants (64 boys and 21 girls) during their first year of life. The data were collected from their "mother-and-baby" notebooks. This notebook is a medical record of the baby's growth and development delivered to the parents of all babies born in Japan. This is a retrospective study which gathered the data from the notebooks after the diagnosis of autism. However, none of the babies were known to have autism at the time the records were made. The head circumference at birth of these autistic children was similar to that of the average found in a Japanese Government Study of 14,115 children. However, it showed a marked increase at 1 month after birth. The discrepancy reached a peak at 6 months, while the difference became smaller at 12 months. Body length (BL) and body weight (BW) began to increase at 3 months, although at a rate smaller than the head circumference increase.

引用

页码：411 / 418

页数：8

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