Table 2. Descriptive statistics for each hormone and each group.
Mean and standard deviation values are in units of nmol/L.
| Control (n=217) | All Autism (F84.0, F84.1, F84.5, F84.8, F84.9; n=128) |
Childhood Autism (F84.0; n=41) |
Asperger Syndrome (F84.5; n=29) |
PDD-NOS (F84.1, F84.8, F84.9; n=58) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progesterone | 49.2085 (26.7755) | 59.2323 (33.3872) | 65.0100 (33.8850) | 60.6800 (37.0477) | 54.4243 (30.9040) |
| 17α-hydroxy-progesterone | 1.5056 (0.5494) | 1.6853 (0.5988) | 1.6722 (0.5246) | 1.7059 (0.5331) | 1.6843 (0.6826) |
| Androstenedione | 0.9701 (0.4793) | 1.1223 (0.7282) | 1.0590 (0.4866) | 1.0310 (0.3673) | 1.2128 (0.9662) |
| Testosterone | 0.7850 (0.3681) | 0.8523 (0.4009) | 0.8224 (0.4080) | 0.9590 (0.4568) | 0.8202 (0.3625) |
| Cortisol | 0.3384 (0.1748) | 0.3739 (0.2115) | 0.3637 (0.1564) | 0.3272 (0.1245) | 0.4050 (0.2721) |