Vitamin A deficiency increases the risk of gastrointestinal comorbidity and exacerbates core symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: VAD exacerbates core symptoms in children with ASD, and ASD children with GI comorbidities also have more serious core symptoms than ASD children without GI comorbidities. VAD comorbid with GI symptoms aggravates autistic children's core symptoms. IMPACT: VAD exacerbates core symptoms in children with ASD.ASD children with GI comorbidities have more serious core symptoms than ASD children without GI comorbidities.VAD comorbid with GI symptoms aggravates autistic children's core symptoms.We speculate that VAD might be related to a subtype of ASD that involves GI comorbidities.We believe that our findings will be of fundamental importance to the scientific community. PMID: 32225174 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Pediatric Research - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Pediatr Res Source Type: research