Prenatal Pilot Case Study Essay

Preventions need to start with researching in order to seek for the correlation and raise the awareness. Indeed, the team of Cheslack- Postvana et al. had concluded a positive correlation between the risk of childhood autism with the level of persistent organic pollutant (POPs) in the Finnish Prenatal pilot case study.4 Persistent organic pollutant is an industrial chemical that has remained a long time in the environment. 4 The measurement of POPs in prenatal maternal serum was operated. Afterward, the data was used to find the correlation between the relationship of prenatal POPs exposure and ASD. The samples were taken from 1991 to 2000 and 150 subjects (75 with subjects autism and 75 control subjects) were followed until 2007. The percentage of POPs was measured by using laboratory technique to distinguish each chemical.
As the result, the maternal POPs level was correlated with the neurodevelopmental disorders and the risk of childhood autism.4 The environmental dilemma is affecting the world in a global scale. An industrialized country such as China has also faced the same problem with ASD. A case-control study was conducted to investigate the environmental risk factors in childhood ASD in China.5 The total subjects were 81 boys with ASD, 74 boys with global developmental delay (GDD), and 163 healthy boys. The result was recorded through a self-designed nurturing environment questionnaire about family, SES, general demographic status, home environment, environmental exposure, prenatal and perinatal maternal health status. The environmental risk factors of ASD and GGD were identified by multivariate logistic regression method. The result also presents a positive correlation between childhood ASD/GDD and the toxicants in environmental maternal exposure from children’s