Autistic children and young adults are more than twice as likely to die before their 25th birthday, a first of its kind study has found.

Autistic children and young adults are more than twice as likely to die before their 25th birthday, compared to their non-autistic peers, new research shows.

The study, published this week in the international academic journal Autism, tracked 857,944 children born in Aotearoa - including 11,919 autistic children - between 1996 and 2010 using individual-level data from the government’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).

It found autistic females were four times more likely to die, compared to non-autistic females

This article is actually from last week but I only just came across it.