Objective To review and synthesise evidence on rates of respiratory-associated deaths and
associated risk factors in the intellectual disability population. Design Systematic review and
meta-analysis. Data sources Embase, CINAHL, ISI Web of Science (all databases including
Medline) and PsychINFO were searched for studies published between 1st January 1985
and 27th April 2020 and examined study and outcome quality. Reference lists and Google
Scholar were also hand searched. Results We identified 2295 studies, 17 were included in …

Background• People with intellectual disabilities are known to experience poorer health
(Hatton et al., 2015; Robertson et al., 2015) and multimorbidity (Kinnear et al. 2018), and die
up to 20 years earlier (O'Leary et al. 2018), from avoidable causes, compared to those in the
general population