Reporting may explain rise in Danish autism cases

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than half of the apparent increase in childhood autism cases in Denmark between 1980 and 2011 may be due to changes in how those cases are reported, according to a new study. Researchers from Aarhus University and the Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research in Denmark studied nearly 678,000 children born there between 1980 and 1991. By December 2011, 3,956 of the children had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. ...



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