The number of autism cases continued to increase in 2022 in the United States, according to a study published on Tuesday, April 15 by the country’s main health agency, a trend probably due to the improvement of the diagnosis, according to the authors.
The estimated prevalence of autism cases in 8 -year -old children has passed in 2022 to one in 31 children, according to this new report of prevention and fight against diseases (CDC). In 2020, he was one in 36 children, and twenty years before, one in 150 children.
“The autism epidemic has become uncontrollable,” reacted the United States Minister of Health, Vaccinoscepte Robert Kennedy JR, believing that the “risks and costs of this crisis” were “a thousand times more threatening for our country than the COVVI-19”.
Last week, he had promised to establish “for September” the causes of this neurode development disorder, leaving more than many scientists who refute the very idea of an “epidemic.”
“Differences in access to detection services”
The study published on Tuesday highlights geographical disparities, gender or even ethnic origin in the prevalence of autism cases in the United States, young children and children of African -American, Asian or Latin ancestry that seem more prone than girls or white boys to be diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder.
The disparities that “could be due to the differences in access to early detection and evaluation services, as well as diagnostic practices,” the study authors write, who remember that “research has not shown that living in certain communities exposes children to a higher risk.”
Therefore, the study evokes regional variability in the training of pediatricians or even accessibility to structures capable of establishing the diagnosis of this complex disorder and with a very broad spectrum, whose doctors always wonder about the origin.
If there is no unique cause identified on this day, several environmental factors have been highlighted, such as neuroinflammation or take certain medications, such as antiepileptic desca during pregnancy, as well as genetic predispositions.
The Minister of Health has repeatedly made the retransmission of a false theory that establishes a link between the Ror vaccine (measles, paper and rubella) and autism. Speculation of a manipulated study that has been repeatedly denied by subsequent work.
Source: BFM TV
