Emergency Department and Inpatient Hospitalizations for Young People With Fragile X Syndrome

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Intellect Dev Disabil
• Personal Author:
  McDermott, Suzanne ; Hardin, James W. ; Royer, Julie A. ; Mann, Joshua R. ; Tong, Xin ; Ozturk, Orgul D. ; Ouyang, Lijing
• Description:
  We compared hospital encounters between adolescents and young adults with fragile X syndrome (FXS) to peers with intellectual disability (ID) from other causes, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and a comparison group without these conditions matched by gender, age, and insurance coverage. Those with FXS, ASD, or ID were more likely to have had hospital encounters. In terms of age groups, we found mental illness hospitalizations decreased during adulthood as compared to adolescence for those with FXS, and we found that for conditions unrelated to FXS (e.g., respiratory, genitourinary, gastroenteritis, and pneumonia) adolescents had higher rates of hospitalization compared to their peers with FXS, ID, or ASD. We analyzed epilepsy, common among people with FXS and designated as an ambulatory care sensitive condition that can be treated outside the hospital, and found that people with FXS, ID, and ASD had higher odds of hospitalization due to epilepsy in both age groups than did the comparison group.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Age Factors Article Child Development Disorders, Pervasive Emergency Service, Hospital Female Fragile X Syndrome Health Status Hospitalization Humans Intellectual Disability Male Young Adult

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• Source:
  Am J Intellect Dev Disabil. 120(3):230-243
• Pubmed ID:
  25928435
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4491920
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; U01 DD000776/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  South Carolina
• Volume:
  120
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1524aa84a3ead921c35c3f61264b47323f4cf3bbd77a98be6fd6403e3b2d29ca
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32018/cdc_32018_DS1.pdf
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