Kennedy Krieger Institute issued the following announcement on June 28.
The study, which compares comorbidities among patients with ASD and ADHD, and ASD alone, is one of the largest of its kind.
A team of researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute used the data from a cross-sectional survey of children aged between six to seventeen years old with ASD. The study included 3,319 children, 1,503 of which had ADHD and were monitored by the Interactive Autism Network between 2006 and 2013.
According to a recent study, children with ADHD and ASD are more likely to develop mood disorders and anxiety. Read more on this study led by Kennedy Krieger’s Dr. Paul Lipkin and Dr. Eliza Gordon-Lipkin
Original source can be found here.
Source: Kennedy Krieger Institute
