Older autistic adults have a significantly higher risk of injury, especially self-inflicted, and physical conditions such as type 2 diabetes, anemia, heart failure and COPD. This is according to a large-scale registry study from Karolinska Institutet published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity.
Cumulative incidence of each outcome by the age of 70 years in autistic and non-autistic adults. Credit:. DOI: 10.1016/S2666-756800067-3. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-756800067-3/fulltext
Older autistic adults have a significantly higher risk of injury, especially self-inflicted, and physical conditions such as type 2 diabetes, anemia, heart failure and COPD.
In the population-based study, the KI researchers linked different national registers and compared the risk for five types of injury and 39 age-related physical conditions in people over the age of 45. Of the four million-plus people born between 1932 and 1967, 1,930 women and 3,361 men had an autism diagnosis. For each physical condition, they evaluated the 25-year cumulative incidence and the relative risk in autistic people compared with non-autistic people of the same sex and age.
"The risk of self-harm was worryingly high, a full seven times higher than in non-autistic people," says Liu."Reasons behind this remain largely unknown. One possible contributing factor could beThe researchers also found a risk increase for 15
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