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All-cause mortality and suicide mortality in autistic individuals: An entire population longitudinal study in Taiwan
Shih-Jen Tsai1, Wen-Han Chang1, Chih-Ming Cheng1
1Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan.
Lay Abstract:
Our study was the first population-based study in an Asian country to investigate the mortality rates among autistic individuals. Among the entire Taiwanese population (N = 29,253,529), between 2003 and 2017, 45,398 autistic individuals were identified and 1:4 age-/sex-matched to 181,592 non-autistic individuals. We found that autistic individuals had increased risks of all-cause mortality, natural-cause mortality, and suicide mortality compared with non-autistic individuals. Furthermore, autistic males were more likely to die by suicide, and autistic females were more likely to die of accident compared with the non-autistic individuals.
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