BackgroundDespite increased recognition of autism in women and girls, their reproductive health remains underexplored. Understanding reproductive health burden and healthcare experiences is essential to identifying barriers and improving su…
BACKGROUND: The poorer physical health of autistic adults compared to non-autistic adults has been highlighted by several epidemiological studies. However, research has so far been limited to specific geographical areas and has primarily fo…
Lay abstractSex-steroids, such as testosterone, are thought to be one of the biological factors implicated in autism. This relies on the sex bias in the diagnosis of autism (boys are approximately four times more likely to be diagnosed than…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe trends in hospital utilization and surgical rates for endometriosis and to estimate the probability of hospital readmission over 4 years among women with early-stage disease. DESIGN: Population-based, retrospec…