Re: CDC Study Finds Autism To Be Less Rare

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> CDC Study Finds Autism To Be Less Rare

>

>The rate for autism in five metropolitan Atlanta counties is

> vastly greater - by a rate of about nine times more - than studies

on the

> neurological disorder previously have documented,

That is interesting 3.4 / 0.04 = 85, not 9. I wonder if it is the

newspaper or the CDC that is messed up here?

> In the largest study of its kind in the country, the Centers for

Disease

> Control and Prevention studied 289,456 children in Clayton, Cobb,

DeKalb,

> Fulton and Gwinnett counties and found autism at a rate of 3.4 per

1,000

> children, according to a study in the Journal of the American

Medical

> Association. About 1,000 children had autism or related disorders.

>

> Previous studies, conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, said that autism

was much

> more rare, only afflicting children at a rate of .04 per 1,000

children. The

> Atlanta study is much closer to a CDC-sponsored study released in

2001 of New

> Jersey children that found an autism rate of 4 per 1,000 kids.

> ................

> But the CDC stopped short of saying that autism was on the rise in

metro

> Atlanta, primarily because

They're not about to admit it is their fault.

> Researchers in the metro Atlanta area also plan to examine how

autism is

> caused.

Millions of federal dollars to be spent obscuring the cause so as to

let the CDC off the hook and make thousands more children autistic.

.........................

> In the Atlanta study, researchers found the autism rate was no

different

> among black and white kids. But the rate varied by age, from 1.9 per

1,000

> children for 3-year-olds to 4.7 per 1,000 for 8-year-olds.

>

> ``Younger children have lower prevalence rates than older children

since many

> young children may not yet have come to the attention of

professionals,'' the

> CDC said.

Of course they said that. They aren't about to say that younger

children have a lower prevalence than older children because the

pediatricians haven't turned them autistic yet.