{"id":27278,"date":"2026-02-04T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/119747-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:30:00","slug":"119747-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=27278","title":{"rendered":"Autism Prevalence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clf1.medpagetoday.com\/media\/images\/119xxx\/119747.jpg\" \/> (MedPage Today) &#8212; A large longitudinal study challenged longstanding assumptions about the gender prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).<br \/>\nAmong 2.7 million people born in Sweden between 1985 and 2022 and followed from birth up to age 37&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/autism\/119747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.medpagetoday.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPage Today) &#8212; A large longitudinal study challenged longstanding assumptions about the gender prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Among 2.7 million people born in Sweden between 1985 and 2022 and followed from birth up to age 37&#8230; Source: www.medpagetoday.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[15602,14521,18141,12546,18140,2037,14059],"class_list":["post-27278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-autism","tag-boys","tag-equal","tag-girls","tag-prevalence","tag-study","tag-suggests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}