Average life expectancy of a person with autism: 36 yrs old. Deaths from 2019
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Here is the study she referenced for this figure in her blog post. Spoiler alert: she is using the data incorrectly.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388960/ …
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And the blog post itself (riddled with antivax misinformation) https://jennifermargulis.net/vaccinate-with-confidence-cdc-campaign/ …
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I am much more worried about the Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist reporting this. I am assuming they read odds ratios or data during study period and mistakenly generalized. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caring-autism/201810/early-death-in-those-autism-spectrum-disorder …
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Life expectancy for someone with autism and cognitive disability is under 40. This includes a 40% increase in dying prematurely of a neurological condition. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-people-with-autism-die-at-younger-age#1 …
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I just addressed this study directly not its secondary reporting.
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And who could forget the nearly 40x increase in likelihood for an autistic child to die prematurely of an injury?https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/03/21/health/autism-injury-deaths-study/index.html?__twitter_impression=true …
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This has the same issues as the other study addressed above. These secondary (mis)reads do not address the points raised.
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The “science journalist” part is alarming.
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Oh good grief!!!! How could she misread or misquote where it says that people with autism die 35.8 years *younger* than the general population? Either a fundamental error or a deliberate attempt to mislead.
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