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| Titre : |
Mortality and Causes of Death in Pervasive Developmental Disorders |
| Type de document : |
Texte imprimé et/ou numérique |
| Auteurs : |
Torben ISAGER, Auteur ; Svend E. MOURIDSEN, Auteur ; Bente RICH, Auteur |
| Article en page(s) : |
p.7-16 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
In the present study, we rediagnosed and followed a clinical sample of 341 children with related pervasive developmental disorders for an average of 24 years (current mean age of 31 years; range 14-48 years). Twelve patients had died. For the whole group crude mortality was 3.5 percent (95 percent Confidence Interval 1.8-6.1 percent). The standardized mortality ratio was 1.9 (95 percent Confidence Interval 1.0-3.4). For the diagnostic subgroups crude mortality was: infantile autism 3.4 percent, autistic-like conditions 3.4 percent, borderline childhood psychosis 2.5 percent and disintegrative psychosis 15.4 percent. Mortality was related to intelligence in a U-shaped fashion, with both severe retardation and normal intelligence being associated with a relatively high risk of death. The distribution between natural causes and unnatural causes of death (accidents, suicide) resembled the pattern seen in a background population of adolescents and younger adults. Five of the 12 deaths were related to epilepsy. |
| En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361399003001002 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=208 |
in Autism > 3-1 (March 1999) . - p.7-16
[article] Mortality and Causes of Death in Pervasive Developmental Disorders [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Torben ISAGER, Auteur ; Svend E. MOURIDSEN, Auteur ; Bente RICH, Auteur . - p.7-16. Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Autism > 3-1 (March 1999) . - p.7-16
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
In the present study, we rediagnosed and followed a clinical sample of 341 children with related pervasive developmental disorders for an average of 24 years (current mean age of 31 years; range 14-48 years). Twelve patients had died. For the whole group crude mortality was 3.5 percent (95 percent Confidence Interval 1.8-6.1 percent). The standardized mortality ratio was 1.9 (95 percent Confidence Interval 1.0-3.4). For the diagnostic subgroups crude mortality was: infantile autism 3.4 percent, autistic-like conditions 3.4 percent, borderline childhood psychosis 2.5 percent and disintegrative psychosis 15.4 percent. Mortality was related to intelligence in a U-shaped fashion, with both severe retardation and normal intelligence being associated with a relatively high risk of death. The distribution between natural causes and unnatural causes of death (accidents, suicide) resembled the pattern seen in a background population of adolescents and younger adults. Five of the 12 deaths were related to epilepsy. |
| En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361399003001002 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=208 |
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Mortality and Causes of Death in Pervasive Developmental Disorders in Autism, 3-1 (March 1999)
