Sex Differences in Psychiatric Comorbidities in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A National Inpatient Sample Analysis.

To investigate sex differences in psychiatric comorbidities in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The US National Inpatient Sample dataset (January 2016 to December 2018) was used for this retrospective study. The patient population was selected by performing a query on all adolescent patients (aged 12-17 years) having ASD with the code starting with F84.