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Rickets treatment improves more than bone health in toddler with autism spectrum disorder: A brief report

Children with autism spectrum disorder have been found to have lower levels of vitamin D than their peers. Our case report supports the hypothesis that vitamin D may be an effective treatment for developmental delay in autism. In addition, we review the literature surrounding vitamin D deficiency as...

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Autores principales: Stalnaker, Leah D, Prasher, Priya, Flesher, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6696828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19870026
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description Children with autism spectrum disorder have been found to have lower levels of vitamin D than their peers. Our case report supports the hypothesis that vitamin D may be an effective treatment for developmental delay in autism. In addition, we review the literature surrounding vitamin D deficiency as a potential cause of autism spectrum disorder and the role that vitamin D may play in treatment.
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spelling pubmed-66968282019-08-26 Rickets treatment improves more than bone health in toddler with autism spectrum disorder: A brief report Stalnaker, Leah D Prasher, Priya Flesher, Susan SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Children with autism spectrum disorder have been found to have lower levels of vitamin D than their peers. Our case report supports the hypothesis that vitamin D may be an effective treatment for developmental delay in autism. In addition, we review the literature surrounding vitamin D deficiency as a potential cause of autism spectrum disorder and the role that vitamin D may play in treatment. SAGE Publications 2019-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6696828/ /pubmed/31452890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19870026 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_full Rickets treatment improves more than bone health in toddler with autism spectrum disorder: A brief report
title_fullStr Rickets treatment improves more than bone health in toddler with autism spectrum disorder: A brief report
title_full_unstemmed Rickets treatment improves more than bone health in toddler with autism spectrum disorder: A brief report
title_short Rickets treatment improves more than bone health in toddler with autism spectrum disorder: A brief report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6696828/
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