Young people with autism or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a higher risk of dying early from a range of causes, a new research review suggests.
Tackling early death in autismDr James Cusack
Accurate, complete and accessible records on cause of death are necessary not just for brain research, but also for understanding risk factors that contribute to early death in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Various national health care and state developmental disability agency initiatives ...
26,28,50 Similarly, early development of type 2 DM in individuals with autism was evident in several studies. After a 10-year follow-up, Chen et al14 revealed hazard ratios of 2.71 (95% CI, 1.64-4.48) and 5.31 (95% CI, 2.85-9.90) for DM 2 among children and young adults with ...
Senility is characterized by the greatest intensity of social loneliness, when the senior person is particularly exposed to the experience of loss of the peers, friends, and neighbours because of death (Weiss, 1995). Loneliness may become a real threat for the life of the elderly, who not onl...
Moreover, 'Asperger's Syndrome' was introduced after he had died, was included in the DSM-IV in 1994 and was omitted from the DSM-5 in 2013. The question posed by this last text, written before his death, is whether Asperger's descriptions of autistic children are really part of the ...
Being "in their own world" often leads to a total disregard for danger that results in a high risk of early death, most commonly from drowning. DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA AND TOOLS The behavioral criteria listed in the 1994 American Psychi- atric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
someone to their death to save greater number of lives); while (ii) moral dilemmas that feature harms carried out not by physical force but by mechanical means and where the harm that befalls the victim is a side-effect of harmful act are called impersonal moral dilemmas (e.g., switching...
However, we propose that the critical period for the occurrence of excessive activation of microglia as a possible pathogenic factor for ASD may be during prenatal and early postnatal development of the brain because symptoms of ASD are manifested very early in life, typically by 3 years of age...
The core diagnostic criteria for autism consist of social communication difficulties, unusually restricted and repetitive behavior, and sensory difficulties that are present early in life and affect social, occupational and other important domains of functioning1,2. However, these criteria are broad, lead...