Interaction Between Intellectual Disability and Cerebral Palsy on the Co-Occurrence of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Epilepsy

Authors

Prarthana Hareesh, George Washington University
Sean D. Cleary, George Washington University

Document Type

Poster

Status

Graduate Student - Masters

Abstract Category

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Keywords

Autism, Epilepsy, Co-occurrence, Cerebral palsy, interaction

Publication Date

Spring 2019

Abstract

Intellectual disability (ID) is possibly a reason for the higher co-occurrence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children with epilepsy. Cerebral Palsy (CP) has also been found to co-occur with ASD (6.9%-hypotonic, 18.4%-spastic subtype) and with epilepsy (41%), but it is unclear if the co-occurrence of ASD and epilepsy varies by the presence of both, ID and CP. The purpose of this study to evaluate effect modification of CP and ID on ASD-epilepsy co-occurrence.

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Comments

Presented at Research Days 2019.