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Article: Study: Rise in autism cases has little to do with diagnosis, more kids.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 17, 2002
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ A startling increase in California's autism cases has little to do with evolving diagnostic methods and population increases, a study has found.
Researchers from UC Davis announced Thursday that they have yet to find why so many children are being afflicted with the developmental disorder. The study's results point to an undiscovered cause and discounts beliefs that reporting discrepancies and other explainable factors led to the rise.
A previous report showed an increase of 273 percent in the number of reported autism cases in California between 1987 and 1998.
"It is astounding to see a threefold increase in autism with no ...