Auscandoc on Nostr: “When researchers screened 50,000 children for #autism in South Korea from 2005 to ...
“When researchers screened 50,000 children for #autism in South Korea from 2005 to 2009, a time when autism diagnoses were rare in the country, they found 2.6 percent of the population met the criteria for a diagnosis. That’s almost exactly the rate of autism diagnosis we find in the United States today — another piece of evidence that while the official statistics can vary widely, the underlying incidence may be relatively stable across different decades and regions.”
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