What the study did: The survey data was used to estimate changes in racial / ethnic disparities in rates of autism spectrum disorder among children and adolescents in the U.S. from 2014 to 2019.
Authors: Z. Kevin Lu, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina at Columbia, is the corresponding author.
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(doi: 10.1001 / jamanetworkopen.2021.0771)
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