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HorrorCharacter5127 OP t1_jdeste0 wrote

Reply to comment by terraresident in For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. by HorrorCharacter5127

It is not from 2010. This study is from this year, 2023.

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[deleted] t1_jdeubrn wrote

The study is comparing data from 2010 to data from 2020. The availability of health care and diagnosis is a confounding factor in the data.

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SLIP411 t1_jdg6afh wrote

So what, this is good news, isn't it?

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[deleted] t1_jdgxons wrote

if we assume that the base occurrence of autism remains unchanged in that time interval, yes, it's great news.

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