Youth With Autism, Intellectual Disability, Or Cerebral Palsy Experienced Higher Mortality From A Range Of Causes Than The General Youth Population

Youth and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), intellectual disability (ID), or cerebral palsy (CP) experienced higher mortality rates than the general population across multiple causes of death, according to a CDC study. Individuals with CP had nearly 10 times the mortality risk of the general population, followed by those with ID at more than four times the risk and those with ASD at 1.35 times the risk. By age 29, cumulative survival was 90.5% for those with CP, 94.7% for those with ID, and 97.7% for those with ASD, compared to 98.4% for . . .