The co-morbidity burden of children and young adults with autism spectrum disorders

Use electronic health records Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to assess the comorbidity burden of ASD in children and young adults. A retrospective prevalence study was performed using a distributed query system across three general hospitals and one pediatric hospital. Over 14,000 individuals under...

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Published in:PloS one 2012-04, Vol.7 (4), p.e33224-e33224
Main Authors: Kohane, Isaac S, McMurry, Andrew, Weber, Griffin, MacFadden, Douglas, Rappaport, Leonard, Kunkel, Louis, Bickel, Jonathan, Wattanasin, Nich, Spence, Sarah, Murphy, Shawn, Churchill, Susanne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Age
Autism
Autoimmune diseases
Biology
Boston
Cardiac patients
Central nervous system
Child
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - epidemiology
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Children's hospitals
Cohort Studies
Comorbidity
Computer Science
Confidence intervals
Controlled vocabularies
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus
Disorders
Dystrophy
Electronic Health Records
Electronic medical records
Electronic records
Epilepsy
Female
Gastrointestinal diseases
Health care policy
Hospitals
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Informatics
Information technology
Intestine
Male
Medical records
Medical research
Medical schools
Medicine
Mental disorders
Morbidity
Muscular dystrophy
Natural language processing
Patients
Pediatrics
Prevalence
Prevalence studies (Epidemiology)
Rheumatoid arthritis
Schizophrenia
Sex Ratio
Sleep
Sleep disorders
Studies
Womens health
Young adults
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Summary:Use electronic health records Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to assess the comorbidity burden of ASD in children and young adults. A retrospective prevalence study was performed using a distributed query system across three general hospitals and one pediatric hospital. Over 14,000 individuals under age 35 with ASD were characterized by their co-morbidities and conversely, the prevalence of ASD within these comorbidities was measured. The comorbidity prevalence of the younger (Age
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0033224