Autistic children and young adults are more than twice as likely to die before their 25th birthday, a first of its kind study has found.

Autistic children and young adults are more than twice as likely to die before their 25th birthday, compared to their non-autistic peers, new research shows.

The study, published this week in the international academic journal Autism, tracked 857,944 children born in Aotearoa - including 11,919 autistic children - between 1996 and 2010 using individual-level data from the government’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).

It found autistic females were four times more likely to die, compared to non-autistic females

This article is actually from last week but I only just came across it.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    International research had identified medical conditions such as cancer and heart disease, accidents - especially choking and poisoning - and medication complications as leading causes of death among autistic people.

    I bet suicide risk is also higher as autistic people are often bullied and driven to suicide by being deemed failures in society. Especially autists with an IQ which is not above average hardly have access to good health care and friends.