Infantile Autism in Children of Immigrant Parents
Authors:
- Suzanne SteffenburgSSSuzanne Steffenburg
- Birgitta BörjessonBBBirgitta Börjesson
- Lena AnderssonLALena Andersson
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 150 (6) , 856-858
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.Keywords
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