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Changes in prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in 2001-2011: findings from the Stockholm youth cohort
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Changes in prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in 2001-2011: findings from the Stockholm youth cohort

Selma Idring, Michael Lundberg, Harald Sturm, Christina Dalman, Clara Gumpert, Dheeraj Rai, Brian K Lee and Cecilia Magnusson
Journal of autism and developmental disorders, v 45(6), pp 1766-1773
Jun 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2336-y
PMID: 25475364
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Abstract

Young Adult Prevalence Autism Spectrum Disorder - epidemiology Humans Adolescent Child, Preschool Adult Female Male Sweden - epidemiology Child
In a record-linkage study in Stockholm, Sweden, the year 2011 prevalence of diagnosed autism spectrum disorders (ASD) was found to be 0.40, 1.74, 2.46, and 1.76% among 0-5, 6-12, 13-17, and 18-27 year olds, respectively. The corresponding proportion of cases with a recorded diagnosis of intellectual disability was 17.4, 22.1, 26.1 and 29.4%. Between 2001 and 2011, ASD prevalence increased almost 3.5 fold among children aged 2-17 years. The increase was mainly accounted for by an eightfold increase of ASD without intellectual disability (from 0.14 to 1.10 %), while the prevalence of ASD with intellectual disability increased only slightly (from 0.28 to 0.34%). The increase in ASD prevalence is likely contributed to by extrinsic factors such as increased awareness and diagnostics.

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