MedPage Today (10/26, DePeau-Wilson) reports, “Young women with autism had a higher risk for psychiatric disorders than young men with autism,” investigators concluded. The study revealed that “between the ages of 16 and 25, 77 of 100” women with autism “and 62 of 100” men with autism “received at least one psychiatric diagnosis.” Compared with men, women with autism “had statistically significant standardized risk differences for any psychiatric disorder…which was larger for anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders.” The findings were published online Oct. 26 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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