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Table 3 Associations between hydrocephalus and clinical subgroups of autism spectrum disorders

From: Co-occurring hydrocephalus in autism spectrum disorder: a Danish population-based cohort study

Condition

Hydrocephalus

Logistic regression adjusted for age and sex

Present N

Absent N

OR

(95% CI)

p-valuea

No psychiatric disease (controls)

40

28,566

1

Reference

Reference

Childhood autism

23

4424

3.71

(2.08–6.51)

3×10−5

Atypical autism

13

1790

5.58

(2.81–0.40)

1.0×10−6

Asperger’s syndrome

15

4390

2.88

(1.49–5.31)

0.005

Other pervasive developmental disorder

8

1860

3.35

(1·41–7·02)

0.014

Pervasive developmental disorder, unspecified

9

2122

3.46

(1·53–7·01)

0.006

  1. aBonferroni corrected for multiple tests (here five)