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Infantile Autism in Children of Immigrant Parents

A Population-based Study from Göteborg, Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christopher Gillberg ,
Suzanne Steffenburg ,
Birgitta Börjesson  and
Lena Andersson
Christopher Gillberg*
Affiliation:
University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
Suzanne Steffenburg
Affiliation:
University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
Birgitta Börjesson
Affiliation:
University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
*
University of Göteborg, Barn-Och Ungdomspsykiatriska Kliniken, Box 7284, 402 35 Göteborg, Sweden
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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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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 150 , Issue 6 , June 1987 , pp. 856 - 858
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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