Table 4. Median Age at First Recorded NDC Diagnosis and Interquartile range (IQR) Among Those With and Without Care Experience.
| No care experience | Care experience | Mann-Whitney U | p-value | ||||
| Median age | IQR | Median age | IQR | statistic (W) | |||
| at diagnosis | at diagnosis | ||||||
| ASD | 10.3 | 6.6–12.8 | 7.4 | 4.0–11.1 | 679,974 | <0.0001 | |
| Learning difficulties | 6.8 | 5.8–8.3 | 6.3 | 5.0–7.8 | 23,590,746 | <0.0001 | |
| Specific learning difficulties | 9.0 | 7.2–11.3 | 8.3 | 6.6–11.1 | 3,830,403 | 0.0037 | |
| NDCs overall | 7.1 | 5.9–9.0 | 6.3 | 4.9–7.9 | 38,701,034 | <0.0001 | |