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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2021 Aug 11;14(10):2189–2199. doi: 10.1002/aur.2590

Table 1.

Characteristics of the four groups of interest stratified according to demographics and features known to be associated with risk of early-onset dementia, including sample compositions used for the prevalence analysis and for the incidence analyses sample

Prevalence analyses sample Incidence analyses sample
ASD only ASD + ID ID only GP ASD only ASD + ID ID only GP
N 12,648 26,168 406,570 798,828 7,573 22,229 310,059 145,081
Age at First Enrollment 1 (%)
 30–50 80.42 81.33 69.04 74.74 82.29 82.30 71.08 65.20
 51–64 19.58 18.67 30.96 25.26 17.71 17.70 28.92 34.80
Sex Male (%) 67.39 69.60 53.41 37.94 68.08 70.08 52.88 36.32
Race/Ethnicity (%)
 White 73.25 72.07 69.11 45.05 72.84 71.88 69.27 48.74
 Black 13.12 17.30 18.97 20.47 14.26 17.41 18.84 25.09
 Asian/Pacific Islander 1.79 1.68 1.64 5.02 1.90 1.72 1.68 5.37
 Hispanic/Latino 5.09 3.99 5.58 22.65 4.87 4.07 5.68 15.25
 Other 6.74 4.96 4.70 6.81 6.13 4.92 4.53 5.55
Urbanicity
 Urban 81.72 82.10 77.65 83.49 81.71 82.01 77.14 80.92
 Suburban 10.56 10.69 13.29 9.32 10.70 10.77 13.67 10.57
 Rural 7.50 6.86 8.68 6.88 7.36 6.86 8.81 8.36
 Missing 0.22 0.35 0.38 0.32 0.24 0.35 0.38 0.15
Medicaid Eligibility Category 2 (%)
 Poverty 4.25 0.28 0.40 30.10 1.65 0.09 0.15 13.40
 Disability 88.46 98.15 98.47 39.32 96.17 98.73 99.20 72.69
 Other 7.29 1.57 1.13 30.59 2.18 1.18 0.66 13.90
Depression (%) 42.93 24.81 27.88 19.60 37.46 23.65 26.75 34.52
Any Other Mental Disorder(s) (%) 73.77 75.50 58.90 33.86 72.80 75.32 58.61 54.84
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor(s) (%) 42.98 39.23 43.27 33.32 42.63 39.01 43.02 56.39
1.

Age at first observed Medicaid enrollment, starting in 2008.

2.

The most common Medicaid eligibility category for the enrolled period.