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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 2.

Prevalence of early-onset dementia in the 4 groups according to sex, age group, race, urbanicity, poverty, presence/absence of depression, other psychiatric conditions, and cardiovascular disease risk factors

ASD only ASD + ID ID only GP
(n = 12,648) (n = 26,168) (n = 406,570) (n = 798,828)
N % N % N % N %
Dementia 511 4.04 1,366 5.22 28,871 7.10 7,767 0.97
Age at First Enrollment1 30–50 288 2.83 899 4.22 13,061 4.65 2,517 0.42
51–64 223 9.01 467 9.56 15,810 12.56 5,250 2.60
Sex Male 321 3.77 908 4.99 14,975 6.90 3,855 1.27
Female 190 4.61 458 5.76 13,896 7.34 3,912 0.79
Race White 362 3.91 1,014 5.38 20,722 7.37 4,149 1.15
Black 75 4.52 207 4.57 5,422 7.03 2,070 1.27
Asian/Pacific Islander 7 3.08 29 6.61 342 5.13 214 0.53
Hispanic/Latino 28 4.35 52 4.99 1,196 5.27 804 0.44
Other 39 4.58 64 4.93 1,189 6.22 530 0.97
Urbanicity Urban 423 4.09 1,109 5.16 22,252 7.05 6,380 0.96
Suburban 37 2.77 161 5.76 3,786 7.01 781 1.05
Rural 51 5.38 93 5.18 2,756 7.81 585 1.06
Missing 0 0.00 3 3.30 77 5.01 21 0.83
Medicaid Eligibility Category2 Poverty 10 1.86 1 1.39 39 2.42 268 0.11
Disability 489 4.37 1,350 5.26 28,611 7.15 7,039 2.24
Other 12 1.30 15 3.64 221 4.79 460 0.19
Depression Yes 313 5.76 527 8.12 13,046 11.51 4,320 2.76
No 198 2.74 839 4.26 15,825 5.40 3,447 0.54
Any Other Mental Disorder(s) Yes 441 4.73 1,205 6.10 22,566 9.42 6,107 2.26
No 70 2.11 161 2.51 6,305 3.77 1,660 0.31
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor(s) Yes 339 6.24 753 7.34 16,237 9.23 5,793 2.18
No 172 2.38 613 3.85 12,634 5.48 1,974 0.37
1.

Age at first observed Medicaid enrollment, starting in 2008.

2.

The most common Medicaid eligibility category for the enrolled period.