Carolyn DiGuiseppi: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of epidemiology at Colorado School of Public Health
- Quoted on
- Health inequalities
- Press citations held
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Life expectancy for the autistic population enrolled in Medicaid in the United States is about 65 years, which is the same as for the general population in Haiti or Angola. This finding is sobering.”
What Carolyn DiGuiseppi has said
“This finding is sobering.”
epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health · Health inequalities · 29 Sept 2026 · Preventable deaths may contribute to autism life expectancy gap ↗
“Life expectancy for the autistic population enrolled in Medicaid in the United States is about 65 years, which is same as for the general population in Haiti or Angola. This finding is sobering.”
MD, PhD, coauthor at University of Colorado · Health inequalities · 29 Sept 2026 · Study: Autism shaves an average of 14 years from life expectancy, with flu the leading contributor ↗
“the estimate is close to general-population life expectancy in countries such as Haiti and Angola, and called the finding sobering”
Coauthor, University of Colorado · Health inequalities · 21 Sept 2026 · Autistic Medicaid Enrollees Lived to About 65 Years in a 21-Year Analysis of Federal Death Records ↗
Where Carolyn DiGuiseppi has been quoted
- Autism linked to 14-year gap in life expectancymedicalxpress.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Preventable deaths may contribute to autism life expectancy gapearth.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Study: Autism shaves an average of 14 years from life expectancy, with flu the leading contributorcidrap.umn.edu · 29 Sept 2026
- Autistic Medicaid Enrollees Lived to About 65 Years in a 21-Year Analysis of Federal Death Recordsmedicaldaily.com · 21 Sept 2026
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