Table 14.
Correlations of symptoms of "Eating/licking paint" and "pica" with symptoms of autism and urinary excretion of metals (at baseline or immediately after the 9th dose of DMSA in Phase 1).
| Eating/Licking Paint | Pica | |
| ATEC Total | n.s. | 0.33 |
| ADOS Total | 0.39 | 0.43 |
| SAS | 0.54 | 0.63 |
| PDD-BI - modified Autism subscale | 0.51 | 0.54 |
| Pb-b | n.s. | 0.32 |
| Pb-9 | 0.62 | 0.40 |
| Sn-b | 0.35 | 0.34 |
| Tl-b | 0.29 | 0.38 |
| Tl-9 | 0.39 | 0.33 |
| Sb-b | 0.49 | 0.45 |
| W-b | 0.31 | 0.45 |
| Al-9 | 0.38 | n.s. |
Correlations of symptoms were checked for all toxic metals listed in table 2, but only the significant ones (r > 0.30) are listed below.