Table 1.

Demographics of normal pediatric controls, 17 patients with ASD at diagnosis (G1), and nine patients with ASD after 12-months of therapy (G2).

	Normal controls (NC) N = 7	Autism patients at diagnosis (G 1) N = 17	Autism patients after 12 months of therapies N = 9 (G2)	NC & G1
Age (years)	Median (min-max)	Median (min-max)	Median (min-max)	P-value
	3.3 (1.6–4.7)	2.9 (1.9–4.7)	4.2 (2.1–6.0)	0.227a
Sex	Frequency (%)	Frequency (%)	Frequency (%)	P-value
Males	4 (57.1)	12 (70.6)	5 (55)	0.647b
Females	3 (42.9)	5 (29.4)	4 (45)

^aMann-Whitney test;

^bFisher's exact test.