{"id":1419,"date":"2018-12-13T23:33:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T23:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2018-12-13T23:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T23:36:53","slug":"new-statistics-on-autism-prevalence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2018\/12\/13\/new-statistics-on-autism-prevalence\/","title":{"rendered":"New statistics on Autism Prevalence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Figure from Spectrum News.<\/p>\n

A new estimate found that the prevalence of autism has risen from about 1 in 59 children (cited by the CDC\u00a0in April 2018) to\u00a01 in every 40 children.\u00a0 Two separate studies, both published earlier this week, found this to be the case\u00a0(Kogan et al., 2018; Xu et al., 2018).\u00a0\u00a0One speculation that\u00a0researchers made\u00a0for this\u00a0jump in prevalence is that these recent surveys were completed by parents, which may produce higher estimates than other methods, and that proof of diagnosis was not required.\u00a0 Both studies also acknowledge that autism prevalence varies significantly by state, as seen in\u00a0the above\u00a0figure from Spectrum News.<\/p>\n

Please follow these links to the referenced articles, as well as a Spectrum News article that covers this development in greater depth, if you’d like to learn more.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

Kogan, M., Vladutiu, C., Schieve, L., Ghandour, R., Blumberg, S., Zaboltsky, B., … Lu, M. (2018). The prevalence of parent-reported Autism Spectrum Disorder among U.S. children.\u00a0Pediatrics, 142<\/i>(6). doi: 10.1542\/peds.2017-4161<\/p>\n

Xu, G., Strathearn, L., Liu, B., O’Brien, M., Kopelman, T., Zhu, J., … Bao, W. (2018). Prevalence and treatment of patterns of autism spectrum disorder in the United States, 2016.\u00a0JAMA Pediatrics.\u00a0<\/i>Published online December 03, 2018. doi: 10\/1001\/jamapediatrics.2018.4208<\/p>\n

link to Kogan et al. study:\u00a0http:\/\/pediatrics.aappublications.org\/cgi\/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=30478241<\/a><\/p>\n

link to Xu et al. study:\u00a0https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/2716402<\/a><\/p>\n

link to Spectrum article:\u00a0https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/national-surveys-estimate-u-s-autism-prevalence-1-40\/<\/a><\/p>\n

link to Disability Scoop article:\u00a0https:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2018\/12\/04\/second-study-1-in-40-autism-rate\/25782\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Figure from Spectrum News. A new estimate found that the prevalence of autism has risen from about 1 in 59 children (cited by the CDC\u00a0in April 2018) to\u00a01 in every 40 children.\u00a0 Two separate studies, both published earlier this week, found this to be the case\u00a0(Kogan et al., 2018; Xu et al., 2018).\u00a0\u00a0One speculation that\u00a0researchers … Continue reading New statistics on Autism Prevalence<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}