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Somalian children living in Minnesota have a higher rate of autism compared to whites and non whites. They have also noticed this in Stockhom as they also have
by leekyle 10y ago
Somalian children living in Minnesota have a higher rate of autism compared to whites and non whites. They have also noticed this in Stockhom as they also have a lot of Somalian immigrants. Researches have found "The increased prevalence remained and was now between four and five times higher in children of Somali background. A clinical observation was that more than 80%, in addition to autism and learning disability, had a profound hyperactivity." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03812.x/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.... People have hypothesized vitamin D could be contributing to this as having darker pigmentation makes it harder to absorb sunlight.