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

Table 2

Mean values of adipokine serum levels in children autism and healthy children.

Adipokine serum levels	Autistic children	Health children	-value	value
	Boys/girls (22/8)	Boys/girls (22/8)
	TNF-α pg/mL
All subjects			3.5	0.001
Boys			3.5	0.002
Girls			1.77	0.12
Resistin ng/mL
All subjects			4.3	0.000
Boys			3.5	0.002
Girls			2.8	0.07
Visfatin ng/mL
All subjects			3.59	0.001
Boys			3.4	0.003
Girls			1.56	0.162

Data are shown as mean ± standard error. values from -test; . Autism versus control.
. Autism versus control.