The Severity of Autism Is Associated with Toxic Metal Body Burden and Red Blood Cell Glutathione Levels : Table 1

Table 1: Characteristics of participants. The second number is the standard deviation.


	Total

Total participants	63
Male	57
Female	6
Age (years)	5.6 1.6
Diagnosis	62 autism, 1 Asperger’s

ATEC (total)	6228
SAS	5.1 2.2
ADOS (communication + social)	15.8 6.5
PDD-BI (modified autism score)	−54.3 62

RBC glutathione (pre-DMSA)	501 246 micromolar