. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2015 Jan 13;8(3):272–283. doi: 10.1002/aur.1444

Table 1.

Characteristics of ASD and Control subjects.

Characteristic	ASD	Control	Statistic	P	Effect Size
N	46	53
Sex (% Boys)	76	54	x²_Yates(1) = 4.34	0 .04*	φ =0.23
	(M ± SD)	(M ± SD)
Age (years)	10.09 ± 3.70	10.83 ± 4.01	t(96) = 0.61	0.35	d = 0.19
BMI	16.81 ± 2.38	16.51 ± 1.86	t(101) = 0.65	0 .52	d =0 .13
Creatinine (ng ml⁻¹)	1.23 ± 0.10	1.13 ± 0.09	t(101) = 0.67	0 .41	d = 0.14