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The physical health of British adults with intellectual disabilities: a cross-sectional study

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The physical health of British adults with intellectual disabilities: a cross-sectional study. / Emerson, E.; Hatton, C.; Robertson, J. et al.
In: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Vol. 60, No. 7-8, 01.07.2016, p. 662-662.

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Emerson E, Hatton C, Robertson J, Baines S. The physical health of British adults with intellectual disabilities: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 2016 Jul 1;60(7-8):662-662. doi: 10.1111/jir.12305

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Emerson, E. ; Hatton, C. ; Robertson, J. et al. / The physical health of British adults with intellectual disabilities : a cross-sectional study. In: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 2016 ; Vol. 60, No. 7-8. pp. 662-662.

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abstract = "Aim: To add to knowledge about the health of the {\textquoteleft}hidden majority{\textquoteright} of adults with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) who do not use ID services.Method: Secondary analysis of data from Understanding Society. We identified 299 participants aged 16 to 49 years (1.1% of the unweighted age-restricted sample) as having ID, and 22,927 as not having ID. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate between-group differences adjusting for potential confounding personal characteristics.Results: British adults with ID have markedly poorer health than their non-disabled peers on the majority of indicators investigated including self-rated health, multiple morbidity, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, measured grip strength, measured lung function and polypharmacy. Adjusting for between-group differences in socio-economic disadvantage and neighbourhood quality had a marked impact on risk estimates with the number of statistically significant differences reducing from 13 to 8 and statistically significant attenuation of risk on three indicators.Conclusions: The {\textquoteleft}hidden majority{\textquoteright} of adults with primarily mild ID have significantly poorer health than their non-disabled peers. This may, in part, reflect their increased risk of exposure to well established {\textquoteleft}social determinants{\textquoteright} of poorer health.",
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