Clinical Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Israel: Impact of Ethnic and Social Diversities

Table 2

The autistic subtypes of autism spectrum disorders among Jews and Arab patients. More Arab patients with autism-PDD than Jewish and more Jewish patients with Asperger and PDD-NOS than Arab ( < 0.05 statistical significance; see text for details).

	Total number (%)	Jews number (%)	Arabs number (%)	values
(1) Type of autism disorder
Autism-PDD	120 (60)	66 (51.2)	54 (76.1)	0.01
Asperger	9 (4.5)	8 (6.2)	1 (1.4)	0.0001
PDD-NOS	71 (35.5)	55 (42.5)	16 (22.5)	0.0001
(2) Clinical course
Primary autism	137 (68.5)	93 (72.1)	44 (62)	0.11
Secondary regression	61 (30.5)	34 (26.4)	27 (38)	0.08
Unknown	2 (1)	2 (1.5)	0	0
(3) CARS scale	35.38 (±2.26)	33.8 (±5.7)	37.4 (±6.3)	0.001