Risk of admission to hospital up to 5 years of age for neonatal survivors among cohort of children born in WA 1983–92 by principal diagnosis and ID status
| Clinically relevant category | Intellectual disability associated with ASD (n = 191) | Medically diagnosed intellectual disability (n = 604) | Severe intellectual disability (n = 223) | Mild or moderate intellectual disability (n = 2111) | Intellectual disability unspecified (n = 393) | No intellectual disability (n = 238317) | ||||||
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| No. of children admitted | Relative risk (95% CI) | No. of children admitted | Relative risk (95% CI) | No. of children admitted | Relative risk (95% CI) | No. of children admitted | Relative risk (95% CI) | No. of children admitted | Relative risk (95% CI) | No. of children admitted | Reference group | |
| Each child can be in more than one category. | ||||||||||||
| na, less than five children. | ||||||||||||
| All categories | 124 | 1.3 (1.2–1.5) | 569 | 2.0 (1.9–2.0) | 192 | 1.8 (1.7–1.9) | 1586 | 1.6 (1.5–1.6) | 317 | 1.7 (1.6–1.8) | 114819 | 1.0 |
| Infections | 61 | 1.4 (1.2–1.7) | 417 | 3.1 (2.91–3.2) | 127 | 2.5 (2.3–2.8) | 998 | 2.1 (2.0–2.2) | 185 | 2.1 (1.9–2.3) | 53802 | 1.0 |
| Respiratory | 12 | 1.0 (0.6–1.7) | 132 | 3.4 (2.9–4.0) | 57 | 4.0 (3.2–5.0) | 310 | 2.3 (2.1–2.6) | 61 | 2.4 (1.9–3.1) | 15226 | 1.0 |
| Gastrointestinal tract | 28 | 2.0 (1.4–2.8) | 188 | 4.3 (3.8–4.8) | 94 | 5.8 (4.9–6.7) | 442 | 2.9 (2.6–3.1) | 88 | 3.1 (2.5–3.7) | 17453 | 1.0 |
| Central nervous system | 8 | 16.0 (8.1–31.6) | 98 | 61.9 (50.8–75.4) | 62 | 106.0 (84.6–132.8) | 102 | 18.4 (15.0–22.6) | 36 | 34.9 (25.3–48.2) | 625 | 1.0 |
| Mental | 15 | 28.2 (17.2–46.1) | 18 | 10.7 (6.7–17.0) | 10 | 16.1 (8.7–29.6) | 39 | 6.6 (4.8–9.1) | 13 | 11.9 (6.9–20.4) | 664 | 1.0 |
| Congenital abnormalities | 25 | 3.7 (2.6–5.4) | 313 | 14.7 (13.6–15.9) | 54 | 6.9 (5.4–8.7) | 250 | 3.4 (3.0–3.8) | 60 | 4.3 (3.4–5.5) | 8401 | 1.0 |
| Oral cavity | 7 | 1.4 (0.7–3.0) | 53 | 3.4 (2.7–4.5) | 17 | 3.0 (1.9–4.7) | 111 | 2.1 (1.7–2.5) | 27 | 2.7 (1.9–3.9) | 6079 | 1.0 |
| Perinatal period | 29 | 1.4 (1.0–2.0) | 134 | 2.1 (1.8–2.4) | 74 | 3.1 (2.6–3.7) | 437 | 1.9 (1.8–2.1) | 107 | 2.5 (2.1–3.0) | 25719 | 1.0 |
| Injury and poisoning | 20 | 1.3 (0.9–2.0) | 120 | 2.5 (2.1–2.9) | 46 | 2.6 (2.0–3.4) | 355 | 2.1 (1.9–2.3) | 59 | 1.9 (1.5–2.4) | 18883 | 1.0 |
| Social admissions | na | 0.5 (0.2–1.4) | 66 | 2.7 (2.2–3.4) | 24 | 2.7 (1.8–3.9) | 153 | 1.8 (1.6–2.1) | 30 | 1.9 (1.3–2.7) | 9528 | 1.0 |
| Renal/genital | 8 | 1.2 (0.6–2.4) | 27 | 1.3 (0.9–1.9) | 12 | 1.6 (0.9–2.7) | 111 | 1.5 (1.3–1.8) | 19 | 1.4 (0.9–2.2) | 8184 | 1.0 |
| Neoplasm | na | 1.3 (0.2–8.8) | 18 | 7.1 (4.5–11.2) | na | 8 | 0.9 (0.5–1.8) | na | 1.2 (0.3–4.8) | 1002 | 1.0 | |
| Other | 24 | 2.1 (1.4–3.0) | 248 | 6.8 (6.2–7.5) | 74 | 5.5 (4.6–6.7) | 375 | 3.0 (2.7–3.3) | 80 | 3.4 (2.8–4.1) | 14312 | 1.0 |