Safety and efficacy of oral DMSA therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders: Part A - Medical results

Table 14 Correlations of symptoms of "Eating/licking paint" and "pica" with symptoms of autism and urinary excretion of metals (at baseline or immediately after the 9^thdose of DMSA in Phase 1).

	Eating/Licking Paint	Pica
ATEC Total	n.s.	0.33
ADOS Total	0.39	0.43
SAS	0.54	0.63
PDD-BI - modified Autism subscale	0.51	0.54
Pb-b	n.s.	0.32
Pb-9	0.62	0.40
Sn-b	0.35	0.34
Tl-b	0.29	0.38
Tl-9	0.39	0.33
Sb-b	0.49	0.45
W-b	0.31	0.45
Al-9	0.38	n.s.

Correlations of symptoms were checked for all toxic metals listed in table 2, but only the significant ones (r > 0.30) are listed below.