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Review: Anxiety Disorders More Than Twice as Common in Adults with Autism

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March 30, 2020Anxiety disorders are diagnosed in 20.1% of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with 8.7% of controls, with the greatest prevalence for anxiety among autistic adults without an intellectual disability, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders1.

What’s more, anxiety disorders are more common in full and half-siblings of individuals with ASD — a finding from a sibling analysis that opens the door to more research regarding a genetic correlation between autism and anxiety.Researchers used data from the Stockholm Youth Cohort to identify 221,694 individuals ages 18 to 27 — 4,049 of whom had been diagnosed with ASD.

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