Letter/Communication
Nutritional Status and Autism Spectrum Disorders Reply
Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.), v 6(6), pp 865-866
01 Nov 2015
PMID: 26567209
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Abstract
Dear Editor
We would like to thank Ms Goldschmidt for her interest in our review article (1) and also bringing these additional references to our attention. We agree with Ms Goldschmidt that researchers across the globe have given much attention to different domains of the child population with autism. However, there is negligible work concentrating on the adult population, particularly relating to the nutrition status of adults. The focus of our review article was to bring together what is currently known about the nutritional status of individuals with autism. Because the nutritional status of the adult population is so scarcely studied, for readers, our review may give the impression of being focused on children.
To our knowledge (using our search terms), the only study that focused on feeding and mealtime problems in adults with autism (2) reported that among adults with intellectual disabilities, those with autism had more severe feeding and mealtime challenges such as food selectivity and refusal than did those without autism. Although the nutritional status of children with autism has been extensively studied, we feel that it is relatively early to make conclusive remarks. Varied methodologies used along with the inadequate sample of the diverse populations studied are some of the shortcomings in the existing literature. Furthermore, we do not aim to generalize the research findings on children to adults with autism and agree with Ms Goldschmidt regarding the need to study the adult population.
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- Title
- Nutritional Status and Autism Spectrum Disorders Reply
- Creators
- Sobhana Ranjan - Drexel UniversityJennifer A. Nasser - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.), v 6(6), pp 865-866
- Publisher
- AMER SOC NUTRITION-ASN
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Nutrition Sciences; Health Sciences
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000364577400023
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84953262133
- Other Identifier
- 991019167524204721
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