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How Real is the Rise in Autism Rates?

Before speculating about the reason for the “explosive” increase in autism, you have to make sure that the explosion is real.

In 1943 a famous paper was published in which Lion children, a child psychiatrist Johns Hopkins, described a number of children with “fascinating idiosyncrasies”. He thought the There Properties are unique syndrome, ‘ not yet reported, which appears to be Rarely enough, but is probably more common than the lack of observed cases suggests. ” HI have called the syndrome autism.

Which reasons autism? It is now by and large considered to be a multifactorial disorder resulting from genetic and not genetic risk factors and their interaction. ” autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) can run in families, but genetic factors can account for only 10 until 20 percent of cases. This is the basic partly that you can have identical twins with identical DNA – the precisely same genesand a twin can have autism, but not the other. “Whe genetic susceptibility can be a major contributor to ASD, it can conceptual only load the weapon with prenatal, perinatal and / or postnatal environmental exposure, so to speak”-This is, environment Exposures during, around or after pregnancy– “to be Events the pull the trigger and can give cause to illness.

That is good news for those who want to reduce the number of cases. The greater the role of these non-genetic factors play in the development of autism, the more so modifiable the risk factors can be, potential open minded[ing] Ways to primary prevention ofautism first of all.

Since autism was first described as a medical condition 1943, it is frequency Has explodes from 1 in 5000 people too 1 in 680.2 “-now more than 1 percent the population, Above a 7,000 percent increase. As You can see in at 1:48 mand video Is Autism Really On The Rise?, data as a matter of fact demonstrate an exponential increase of virtual no diagnosed cases in the early 1900s for prevalence of autism Shoot through the roof in the 19th80s and 19th90s. W.What happened at that time that could explain the explosion? Hold tight. It makes sense that there werenot any cases diagnosed in the early 1900s; it didn’t even have a name until 1943. But, aS. children called in the original paper, there probably became There were more cases, but they just hadn’t looked. So, the early dates we have to do not demonstrate the prevalence of autism; she demonstrate the prevalence of autism Diagnoses, which are dependent At the Diagnostic criteria you are use and whether you even Looking for ASD or not.

Put another way, historical prevalence estimates for autism and the broader autism spectrum could be good been underrated from the true prevalence. ” Possibly a a lot of Cases were failed. “Iincreased recognition [among doctors and society at large], the expansion of the diagnostic concept over time and methodical differentthis across Studies can be done for m. to be responsibleeast or all of the apparent increase in prevalence, although thisnocannot be quantified. So before we speculate about the reason for the explosive surge, we should perhaps first make sure that the explosion is real. The floor management? W.But we can never really know what the prevalence is of autism was half a century ago, we’ve had decent data over the past few decades to do indicate a significant increase in true prevalence.

mYes there was not actually a 22-fold increase in autism in the 19th80s and 19th90s. maybe there was actually just one eightincrease wrinkles. W.I can fight Above whether the rise is 800. fraud percent or closer to 2000 percent, but it appears the Autism rates really are increasing, so the question justifiably turns to whe?

This is an important concept. When we talk about the prevalence or incidence of disease, we are talking about the prevalence or incidence of diagnoses. S.Ö, when criteria change or when we only look harder, Artsefactual changes can be created in disease rates.

THE CENTRAL THESES

  • Autism was first described in a 1943 article by Leo Kanner, a child psychologist at Johns Hopkins, who identified “fascinating features” in a number of children who he believed formed a unique “syndrome”.
  • Today, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is considered a multifactorial disorder with genetic and non-genetic risk factors.
  • The more important the role of non-genetic factors can play in the development of ASA, the more “modifiable” the risk factors can be, which could possibly enable the disease to be prevented at all.
  • It appears that the prevalence of autism has “exploded” since it was first described in 1943, increasing by about 7,000 percent, but early data shows no prevalence of autism – only the prevalence of autism diagnoses, which depends on the diagnostic criteria are used and whether ASA is tested at all or not.
  • We may never know what the prevalence of autism was half a century ago, but data from the past few decades suggest a significant increase in its actual prevalence.
  • It is important to distinguish between the prevalence or incidence of disease and the prevalence or incidence of diagnosis.

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Michael Greger, MD

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