Örtqvist L, et al. - In cases of psychiatric morbidity and matched controls, researchers conducted psychiatric morbidity interviews covering the 17 most common psychiatric diagnoses. Using hospital registers from 1959 to 1994, they compared 167 men who were born with hypospadias in Stockholm or Gothenburg in Sweden. The data presented in this work showed a fifth (21%) of both the cases and controls reported current or previous symptoms of psychiatry. No significant differences were found in self-rated depression, anxiety or obsessive–compulsive disorder symptoms between the patients and controls or between the different phenotype groups. The severity of hypospadias did not significantly affect the distribution. They found that men with hypospadias had no higher psychiatric morbidity than population-based controls.