Citation

Tsai SJ, Chang WH, Cheng CM, Liang CS, Bai YM, Hsu JW, Huang KL, Su TP, Chen TJ, Chen MH. Autism 2023; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, National Autistic Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/13623613231167287

PMID

37161269

Abstract

Our study was the first population-based study in an Asian country to investigate the mortality rates among autistic individuals. Among the entire Taiwanese population (N = 29,253,529), between 2003 and 2017, 45,398 autistic individuals were identified and 1:4 age-/sex-matched to 181,592 non-autistic individuals. We found that autistic individuals had increased risks of all-cause mortality, natural-cause mortality, and suicide mortality compared with non-autistic individuals. Furthermore, autistic males were more likely to die by suicide, and autistic females were more likely to die of accident compared with the non-autistic individuals.

Language: en

Keywords

suicide; mortality; Taiwan; autism