CNN (3/21, Scutti) reports that research published online in the American Journal of Public Health indicates “preventable injuries often lead to death among people with autism.” The study found that people with autism “are three times more likely than the general population to die because of injuries.” Meanwhile, the study indicates that “for children and young teens with this developmental disability, the numbers are more striking: They are 40 times more likely to die from injury than the general child population.”
HealthDay (3/21, Thompson) reports that the study, which included data on “nearly 1,370 people diagnosed with autism who died between 1999 and 2014,” found that children “with an autism spectrum disorder are 160 times more likely to die from drowning compared with the general pediatric population.”
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— “Children with autism 40 times more likely to die from injury, study says,”Susan Scutti, CNN, March 21, 2017.