Increased Serum Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha, Resistin, and Visfatin in the Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Case-Control Study

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of autistic children and healthy children.

Characteristics	Children with autism	Healthy children	-value	value
Age, years, mean ± SE			−0.99	0.32
Sex,	boys: 22;	boys: 22;
	girls: 8	girls: 8
Weight, kg			−0.33	0.73
Height, cm			−0.34	0.73
BMI, kg/m^2			−0.11	0.90
BMI-SDS

BMI: body mass index; BMI-SDS: body mass index-standard deviation scores.
All values are gotten from two-tailed Student’s -test.