Sex Differences in Autistic Youth Born Extremely Preterm.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate sex differences in autistic traits in youth born extremely preterm (EP; 23-27 weeks) who were later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at 10-years.

Method

A longitudinal cohort design from the Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborn Study (ELGAN) followed N = 857 EP infants from birth through 10-years. EP infants later diagnosed with ASD (N = 61, 20 females) participated in the study. Group differences were evaluated via inferential and Bayesian statistics (values > 1 suggest evidence for alternate hypothesis) on ASD screeners (M-CHAT at 2-years, SCQ and SRS-2 at 10-years), and gold-standard diagnostic measures (ADOS-2, ADI-R) at 10-years.

Results

Males scored significantly higher than females on measures of Social Affect from the ADOS-2,

SUBMITTER: McFayden TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11401963 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature