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The research summary in “Risk of GI Disorders Increased With Autism” (March 2009, p. 15) is valuable, but should include critical analysis Dr. Lulu W. Wang’s study has several flaws that, however unintentionally, echo the “gut-brain” connection and alternative vaccine schedules so cogently rebuked by Dr. Stephen I. Pelton in the same issue (ID Consult, “Delaying Vaccines Risks Serious Infection,” p. 4). As with many autism studies, Dr. Wang does not seem to employ the five PDD (pervasive developmental disorder) categories of DDSM-IV or to describe underlying genetic conditions. Children meeting criteria were “quite low functioning and had few language skills”—exactly the group who will have hypertonia from cerebral palsy/neurologic disorders or hypotonia from Mendelian/c…
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