Monitoring well being in autistic adults, and extra
Lifelong outcomes: Autistic people have more health issues and higher rates of mortality than their counterparts in the general population, according to two recent publications. Autistic adults have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity and inflammatory bowel disease than do their non-autistic peers, one study found. And more deaths occurred in a cohort of people diagnosed with autism as children than in an age- and sex-matched cohort of non-autistic people, the other study reported. The researchers on both papers call for greater monitoring and support for autistic people across their lifespan.
Autism research spotted this week:
