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What is the financial cost? The estimated cost - for direct costs alone - is more than $13.3 billion per year (OLPA). "It has been estimated that the cost to the UK for lifetime care of one person with autism is approximately pounds sterling 3 million. With the possibility of an epidemic of autism, is it not time to begin looking at the biomedical factors behind autism spectrum disorders more closely?" (Whiteley, 2001) -------------------------------------------- Whiteley P - "Autism unravelled conference--'the biology of autism--unravelled' " Expert Opin Pharmacother 2(7):1191-3 (2001) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=11583070&form=6&db=m&Dopt=r
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