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The paper, press conference and video sparked a major health scare in the United Kingdom. As a result of the scare, full confidence in MMR fell from 59% to 41% after publication of the Wakefield research. In 2001, 26% of family doctors felt the government had failed to prove there was no link between MMR and autism and bowel disease. [21]
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sometimes known as cot death or crib death, is the sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age. Diagnosis requires that the death remain unexplained even after a thorough autopsy and detailed death scene investigation. [ 2 ]
PDD-NOS was one of four disorders collapsed into the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in the DSM-5, [3] and also was one of the five disorders classified as a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) in the DSM-IV. [4] The ICD-10 equivalents also became part of its definition of autism spectrum disorder, as of the ICD-11.
The results indicated that infants with particular levels of those metabolites in their blood had a higher risk of SIDS — up to 14 times the odds compared to infants with the lowest risk.
As of 2013, it is no longer a diagnosis on its own. Instead, patients are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which encompasses Asperger syndrome. Many people still use Asperger's as a term when referring to "high-functioning" individuals with autism, but it is not an official diagnosis.
There are no known biomarkers for autism spectrum conditions that allow for a conclusive diagnosis. [ 2 ] In most cases, diagnostic criteria codified in the World Health Organization 's International Classification of Diseases (ICD) or the American Psychiatric Association 's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) are used.
The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, or SFARI for short, is a research program established in 2005 by the Simons Foundation, which focuses on all aspects of autism research. Its director is Kelsey Martin. [1] The organization has funded more than $200 million in autism research to 150 different investigators since 2007. [2]
[76] [77] In 2004, the MMR-and-autism interpretation of the paper was formally retracted by ten of its thirteen coauthors, [78] and in 2010 The Lancet ' s editors fully retracted the paper. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register , with a statement identifying deliberate falsification in the research published in The ...