Autism linked to 14-year gap in life expectancy

People with autism spectrum upset (ASD) successful the United States look a 14-year shortage successful beingness expectancy, according to a caller survey by researchers astatine Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and University of Colorado Anschutz. The survey provides 1 of the archetypal large-scale estimates of age-specific decease rates and beingness expectancy among radical with ASD. The findings are published successful JAMA Network Open.