Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Psychiatric comorbidities in autism spectrum disorders: findings from a Danish Historic Birth Cohort

  • Letter to the Editor
  • Published:
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Simonoff E, Pickles A, Charman T, Chandler S, Loucas T, Baird G (2008) Psychiatric disorders in children with autism spectrum disorders: prevalence, comorbidity, and associated factors in a population-derived sample. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47(8):921–929

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. de Bruin E, Ferdinand R, Meester S, de Nijs P, Verheij F (2007) High rates of psychiatric co-morbidity in PDD-NOS. J Autism Dev Disord 37(5):877–886. doi:10.1007/s10803-006-0215-x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Santosh P, Mijovic A (2006) Does pervasive developmental disorder protect children and adolescents against drug and alcohol use? Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 15(4):183–188. doi:10.1007/s00787-005-0517-0

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Bejerot S, Nylander L (2003) Low prevalence of smoking in patients with autism spectrum disorders. Psychiatry Res 119(1–2):177–182. doi:10.1016/s0165-1781(03)00123-9

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Nørgaard-Pedersen B (2005) Statens Serum Institut: etablering af en ny historisk prospektiv mor-barn biobank kohorte baseret på ca. 100.000 gravidscreenings prøver [Grant application: establishing a new historic prospective mother–child cohort based on approximately 100,000 antenatal screening samples at Statens Serum Institut]. Statens Sundhedsvidenskabelige Forskningsråd, Copenhagen

  6. Lauritsen M, Jørgensen M, Madsen K, Lemcke S, Toft S, Grove J, Schendel D, Thorsen P (2010) Validity of childhood autism in the Danish psychiatric central register: findings from a cohort sample born 1990–1999. J Autism Dev Disord 40(2):139–148. doi:10.1007/s10803-009-0818-0

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Andersen TF, Madsen M, Jorgensen J, Mellemkjoer L, Olsen JH (1999) The Danish national hospital register: a valuable source of data for modern health sciences. Dan Med Bull 46(3):263–268

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Knudsen L, Olsen J (1998) The Danish medical birth registry. Dan Med Bull 45(3):320

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Leyfer O, Folstein S, Bacalman S, Davis N, Dinh E, Morgan J, Tager-Flusberg H, Lainhart J (2006) Comorbid psychiatric disorders in children with autism: interview development and rates of disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 36(7):849–861. doi:10.1007/s10803-006-0123-0

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. Mortensen EL, Sorensen HJ, Jensen HH, Reinisch JM, Mednick SA (2005) IQ and mental disorder in young men. Bri J Psychiatry 187(5):407–415. doi:10.1192/bjp.187.5.407

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

The Danish Historic Birth Cohort was established at Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen with a grant from The Danish Medical Research Foundation and The Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health (Project no 271-05-0523/09-060179). This study is funded by Aarhus University Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus, Denmark and Statens Serum Institute, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Copenhagen, Denmark (Project title: Intrauterine exposures and childhood psychiatric disorders, Project ID: 494028). The authors thank Vibeke Munk from Copenhagen University for her administrative assistance.

Conflict of interest

None.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Epidemiology, Aarhus University School of Public Health, Aarhus, Denmark

    Morsi W. Abdallah

  2. Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Morsi W. Abdallah, Bent Nørgaard-Pedersen & David M. Hougaard

  3. Unit of Medical Psychology, Institute of Public Health and Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Oster Farimagsgade 5B, CSS 15.0.19, 2099, 1014, Copenhagen K, Denmark

    Morsi W. Abdallah

  4. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Sophia’s Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Kirstin Greaves-Lord

  5. Yulius Academie, Yulius, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Kirstin Greaves-Lord

  6. Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Health Sciences and Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Jakob Grove

  7. Unit of Medical Psychology, Institute of Public Health and Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Erik L. Mortensen

Authors
  1. Morsi W. Abdallah
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Kirstin Greaves-Lord
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jakob Grove
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Bent Nørgaard-Pedersen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. David M. Hougaard
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Erik L. Mortensen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Morsi W. Abdallah.

Additional information

J. Grove, B. Nørgaard-Pedersen and D.M. Hougaard equally contributed to this paper.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Abdallah, M.W., Greaves-Lord, K., Grove, J. et al. Psychiatric comorbidities in autism spectrum disorders: findings from a Danish Historic Birth Cohort. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 20, 599–601 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-011-0220-2

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-011-0220-2

Keywords

Search

Navigation