Type 1 Diabetes and Autism: Is there a link?
Response to Harjutsalo and Tuomilehto
- Denis Daneman, MD
- From the Division of Endocrinology, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Address correspondence to Denis Daneman, MD, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Division of Endocrinology, Room 5110, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada. E-mail: denis.daneman{at}sickkids.on.ca
We thank Harjutsalo and Tuomilehto (1) for their most informative comments. There can be no doubt that they have thoroughly investigated the potential association between type 1 diabetes and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a large population-based cohort of Finnish children and failed to find any suggestion of an association. Why might their data differ from ours?
Based on clinical experiences, we reported what had appeared to be a higher-than-expected prevalence of ASD in our …
