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

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• 作者：Shiny Thomas ; Mary E. Hovinga ; Dheeraj Rai…
• 关键词：Autism ; Epilepsy ; Comorbid ; Epidemiology
• 刊名：Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：47
• 期：1
• 页码：224-229
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Child and School Psychology; Pediatrics; Neurosciences; Public Health;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3432
• 卷排序：47

文摘

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.