Corrections: Prevalence of long-term health conditions in adults with autism: observational study of a whole country population

Rydzewska E, Hughes-McCormack LA, Gillberg C, et al. Prevalence of long-term health conditions in adults with autism: observational study of a whole country population BMJ Open 2018;8:e023945. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023945. 

This article was previously published with some errors.

In result section of the abstract, the percentage of deafness/hearing loss, physical disability and the OR for mental health conditions are incorrect.

deafness/hearing loss should be 14.1% instead of 17.5%

physical disability should be 24.0% instead of 30.7%

OR for mental health conditions should be OR 8.6 (95% CI 8.2 to 9.1) instead of OR 8.6 (95% CI 8.2 to 9.0).

On the prevalence of reported comorbidities section (page 3) it reads:

Table 3 shows the OR (95% CI) of autism predicting each of the six conditions: OR 3.3 (3.1 to 3.6) for deafness or partial hearing loss, OR 8.5 (7.9 to 9.2) for blindness or partial sight loss, OR 94.6 (89.4...

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