Young Adults with High Autistic-Like Traits Displayed Lower Food Variety and Diet Quality in Childhood

This study explored the association between autistic-like traits in young adults and dietary intake in early childhood in the Gen2 Raine Study cohort. Data were available from 811 participants at years 1, 2 and 3 for the assessment of dietary intake, and at year 20 for measurement of autistic-like t...

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Autores principales: Panossian, Catherine, Lyons-Wall, Philippa, Whitehouse, Andrew, Oddy, Wendy H., Lo, Johnny, Scott, Jane, O’Sullivan, Therese A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32617793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04567-4
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Sumario:This study explored the association between autistic-like traits in young adults and dietary intake in early childhood in the Gen2 Raine Study cohort. Data were available from 811 participants at years 1, 2 and 3 for the assessment of dietary intake, and at year 20 for measurement of autistic-like traits. Results showed as autistic-like traits increased, total food variety, core food variety and dairy variety decreased (p < 0.05), with a lower consumption of citrus fruits and yoghurt (both p = 0.04). As autistic-like traits increased, diet quality decreased, this trend was significant at 2 years (p = 0.024). Our results suggest that young adults with higher autistic-like traits were more likely to have had lower food variety and diet quality in early childhood. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10803-020-04567-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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