Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Qian Li, from the School of Public Health at Guangdong Pharmaceutical University in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues used data from the 2019 and 2020 National Health Interview Survey to estimate ASD prevalence among U.S. children and adolescents.
The researchers found that the prevalence of ASD was 2.79 percent in 2019, 3.49 percent in 2020, and 3.14 percent overall. There was a significant difference in prevalence between sexes (4.64 percent in boys versus 1.56 percent in girls) and according to family income-to-poverty ratio (<1.00 (reference): 4.89 percent; 1.00 to 1.99: 2.71 percent; 2.00 to 3.99: 3.20 percent; and ≥4.00: 2.45 percent).
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