Infantile Autism in Children of Immigrant Parents. A Population-based Study from Göteborg, Sweden

Overview

Journal Br J Psychiatry

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 1987 Jun 1

PMID 3651741

Citations 16

Authors

C Gillberg

S Steffenburg

B Borjesson

L Andersson

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Abstract

A population-based study of infantile autism from western Sweden has been completed. Urban children with autism more often than age-matched children in the general population had immigrant parents from 'exotic' countries. No such trend was seen in rural children with infantile autism.

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