Publication date: Jan 09, 2025
There have been disparities reported in prevalence of autism by gender, race, and socioeconomic status with older ages of diagnosis in non-White and in female children. Possible disparities in the ages of autism diagnosis are not well-established within the Military Health System (MHS) pediatric population, where we hypothesized less disparities given universal Tricare coverage for active-duty military families and theoretically equal access to the military treatment facility (MTF). We conducted retrospective cross-sectional analysis using deidentified database repository records from the MHS. We collected and analyzed demographic data on children covered by Tricare and newly diagnosed with autism within an MTF (N = 31,355) or outside of the MTF (5,579 respectively). Within the MTF, we identified younger ages of autism diagnosis in non-White children less than 18 years old (p
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Concepts | Keywords |
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18years | Autism |
Autism | Autism spectrum disorder |
Race | Diagnosis |
Socioeconomic | Disparities |
Therapy | Military |
Semantics
Type | Source | Name |
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disease | MESH | Autism Spectrum Disorder |
disease | MESH | autism |
drug | DRUGBANK | Aspartame |
disease | MESH | Developmental Disabilities |
drug | DRUGBANK | Trestolone |
pathway | REACTOME | Reproduction |
drug | DRUGBANK | Ethionamide |
disease | MESH | asthma |
pathway | KEGG | Asthma |
disease | MESH | inflammatory bowel disease |
pathway | KEGG | Inflammatory bowel disease |
disease | MESH | neonatal hyperbilirubinemia |
disease | MESH | Morbidity |