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30 percent of child ADHD have it as adults

By Korea Herald
Published : March 5, 2013 - 17:27

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Nearly 30 percent of those with childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder still have the condition as adults, U.S. researchers say.

Dr. William J. Barbaresi of the Boston Children‘s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine tracked hundreds of children with ADHD into adulthood and reported the majority had mental health problems such as alcohol or drug dependence, anxiety, depression, or a personality disorder.

Almost 6,000 adults with childhood ADHD and non-ADHD controls were invited to participate in a prospective outcome study. Standardized mortality ratios were constructed to compare overall and cause-specific mortality between childhood ADHD cases and controls. Incarceration status was determined for childhood ADHD cases. A standardized neuropsychiatric interview was administered, the researchers said.

The researchers determined of the 367 childhood cases of ADHD 2 percent were deceased and 2.7 percent were incarcerated.

However, the cause-specific mortality for suicide was significantly higher among ADHD cases. Among the childhood ADHD cases participating in the prospective assessment ADHD persisted into adulthood for 29.3 percent.

The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found participating childhood ADHD cases were more likely than controls to have one or more other psychiatric disorder.

“Childhood ADHD is a chronic health problem, with significant risk for mortality, persistence of ADHD, and long-term morbidity in adulthood,” the researchers said. (UPI)





아동 ADHD 성인까지 지속될 확률은?

미국의 연구가들은 어렸을 적 ADHD(주의력 결핍 과잉 행동 장애)를 갖고 있었던 30퍼센트의 아동들은 어른이 되어서도 같은 장애를 갖고 있는 것으로 나타났다고 전했다.

보스턴 어린이 병원과 하버드 의과대학의 윌리엄 바바레시 의사, 마요 클리닉, 텍사스 어린이 병원, 그리고 베일러 의학 대학교의 연구가들은 어린 시절 ADHD를 갖고 있던 어린이들과 ADHD를 갖고 있지 않았던 약 6,000명의 어른을 대상으로 조사가 진행한 결과 ADHD 아동은 성인이 된 후에까지 관찰한 결과 대다수가 알코올 중독 및 우울증 등의 정신적 질환을 앓는 것으로 확인됐다.

“아동 ADHD는 만성적인 건강 문제이다. 사망률에도 큰 영향이 있으며 성인 ADHD까지 유발 할 수 있다”고 연구가들이 전했다.

미국 소아과 아카데미 의학 저널인 ‘피디애트릭스(Pediatrics)’에 실린 이 연구 결과는 아동 ADHD의 경우 한 개 이상의 정신적 질환을 갖게 될 확률이 크다고 전했다. (코리아헤럴드)

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