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Healio (6/4, Gramigna) reported, “Older individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities were more likely to take more psychiatric medications and have more medical conditions,” despite the fact that “this patient population reported fewer psychiatric diagnoses,” investigators concluded after conducting “tests, Mann Whitney U tests, chi-squared tests and multinomial logistic regression models to compare 1,188 individuals aged 30 to 49 years with 464 individuals aged 50 years or older.” The findings were published online June 3 in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. (SOURCE: APA Headlines)