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| | Autism-Biomed: CDC Report, Autism in Brick Township (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | On April 18, 2000, the CDC announced that the prevalence of autistic disorder in Brick Township is 4.0 per 1000 children, ages 3 to 10 years and, after including PDD-NOS and Asperger's syndrome, 6.7 per 1000 children, ages 3 to 10 years living in the community during 1998. |
 | | In light of these older studies, the Brick Township data appear to constitute a true cluster unless further studies show that the prevalence, using DSM-IV criteria, are generally higher in the U.S. then previously believed. |
 | | On the other hand, if Brick Township represented a true cluster, one might expect a higher sibling recurrence rate than the one actually found, 4.9%, which is similar to previous estimates. |
| www.autism-biomed.org /bricktwn.htm (1766 words) |
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