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ArticleOpen access Macedonian journal of medical sciences2017

Association between Beta-Sympathomimetic Tocolysis and Risk of Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Behavioural and Developmental Outcome in Toddlers.

Mengühan Araz Altay, Işık Görker, Rakhshanda Aslanova, Leyla Bozatlı, Nesrin Turan, Petek Balkanlı Kaplan

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Article in Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Family Physicians' Awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results from a Survey Study.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019
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Mengühan Araz AltayDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Edirne Sultan 1. Murat State Hospital, Edirne, Turkey.
Işık GörkerDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
Rakhshanda AslanovaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
Leyla BozatlıDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
Nesrin TuranDepartment of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
Petek Balkanlı KaplanDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
Trakya University · TR

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Abstract

aimTo investigate whether maternal intravenous beta-mimetic tocolytic therapy increases the risk of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and poorer behavioural and developmental outcomes.

methodOur study is a prospective case-control study among 90 children between 1.5 and three years old. Cases (n = 46) were toddlers with betamimetic tocolytic exposure; control group toddlers (n = 44) were tocolytic untreated. Treated and untreated groups were also divided into subgroups: term and preterm delivered. The gestational age of tocolytic treatment start, the dose and duration of exposure in hours were obtained from obstetric medical records. The Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA), the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) and the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) tests were applied for evaluation of social, emotional problems, autism and developmental disorders.

resultsTerm and preterm born toddlers treated tocolytically in utero didn't demonstrate a higher risk of autistic disorders or poorer behavioural and developmental results than controls. In the preterm group, the earliest start of tocolytic treatment was correlated with toddlers lower score of the Competencies Scale (p = 0.009) and a higher score of the Problems Scale (p = 0.048). Also, we concluded that preterm membrane rupture was associated with higher ASD risk in the untreated group (p = 0.043).

conclusionExposure to betamimetics during pregnancy was not associated with an increased risk of autism, behavioural and developmental disorders.

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Autism spectrum disorderBehavioural and Developmental disordersBeta-mimeticsTocolysis

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PMID29104681
PMCPMC5661710
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