Association Between Autism Spectrum Disorders With or Without Intellectual Disability and Depression in Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Depression is a frequently occurring mental disorder and may be common in adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but there is a lack of longitudinal population-based studies examining this association. Whether any increased risk of depression in ASD has a shared familial basis and whether it differs by co-occurring intellectual disability is not well known.

Objectives

To examine whether individuals with ASD are more likely to be diagnosed as having depression in adulthood than the general population and their nonautistic siblings and to investigate whether these risks differ by the presence or absence of intellectual disability.

Design, setting, and participants

Population-based cohort study with a nested sibling comparison. The Stockholm Youth Cohort

SUBMITTER: Rai D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324523 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature