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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017

Brief Report: Prevalence of Co-occurring Epilepsy and Autism Spectrum Disorder: The U.S. National Survey of Children's Health 2011-2012.

Shiny Thomas, Mary E Hovinga, Dheeraj Rai, Brian K Lee

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Shiny ThomasDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Mary E HovingaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Dheeraj RaiCentre for Academic Mental Health, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Brian K LeeDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA. bklee@drexel.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epilepsy is reported to co-occur in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Previous studies across the world have found prevalence estimates ranging from 4 to 38 %. We examined parent-reported prevalence of co-occurring epilepsy and ASD in the most recent U.S. National Survey of Children's Health, 2011-2012. All analyses accounted for survey weights to account for the complex sampling design. In the overall analytic sample of 85,248 children ages 2-17, there were 1604 children with ASD (prevalence of 1.8 %) and 1083 children with epilepsy (prevalence of 1.2 %). Epilepsy was reported to co-occur in 8.6 % of ASD cases. In children with ASD, the co-occurrence of epilepsy was associated with increasing child age, female gender, intellectual disability, speech problems and lower socioeconomic status.

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AdolescentAutism Spectrum DisorderChildChild, PreschoolComorbidityEpilepsyFemaleHealth SurveysHumansMalePrevalenceSocial ClassSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesAutismComorbidEpidemiologyEpilepsy

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