Surprise! A Meaningful Autism Disorder Study Provides Evidence of Autism's Harsh Realities

This study though should be helpful in bringing a much needed dose of autism realities to the  public understanding of autism disorders and the harsh realities that accompany them.The health status of adults on the autism spectrumLisa A Croen1Ousseny Zerbo1Yinge Qian1Maria L Massolo1Steve Rich2Stephen Sidney1Clarissa Kripke31Kaiser Permanente Northern California—Oakland, USA2Kaiser Permanente Northern California—Santa Rosa, USA3University of California, San Francisco, USALisa A Croen, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California—Oakland, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA. Email: [e-mail] to the general pediatric population, children with autism have higher rates of co-occurring medical and psychiatric illnesses, yet very little is known about the general health status of adults with autism. The objective of this study was to describe the frequency of psychiatric and medical conditions among a large, diverse, insured population of adults with autism in the United States. Participants were adult members of Kaiser Permanente Northern California enrolled from 2008 to 2012. Autism spectrum disorder cases (N = 1507) were adults with autism spectrum disorder diagnoses (International Classification of Diseases-9-Clinical Modification codes 299.0, 299.8, 299.9) recorded in medical records on at least two separate occasions. Controls (N = 15,070) were adults without any autism spectrum disorder diagnoses sampled at a...

Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - August 3, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs