ADHD

Guest opinion: The misnamed ADHD is not over-diagnosed
The Daily Camera
The April 16 Camera editorial (reprinted from the Philadelphia Inquirer) perpetuates a number of common myths and misconceptions about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). As a psychologist specializing in attention issues for the past 15 ...
ADHD or Sleep Disorder: Are We Getting It Wrong?Huffington Post

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ADHD Affects Growing Number of Grown-Ups
MyFox Houston
Most people think ADHD only affects children and teenagers. But more and more adults are being diagnosed with it. David Goodall, Jr., is one of them. But for him, ADHD does not manifest itself as an attention "deficit." More like attention ...

NPR (blog)
Is Childhood ADHD Making You a Fat Adult?
Yahoo! News
"As we learn more about the regions of the brain that may be implicated in obesity, they overlap with brain regions implicated in ADHD," says Dr. F. Xavier Castellanos to Reuters. According to Castellanos, who wrote in Pediatrics, the reward system ...
ADHD In Childhood May Feed Obesity In AdultsNPR (blog)
The Surprising Link Between ADHD and ObesityMotley Fool
Men who had ADHD as kids may be more likely to be obese as adultsCBS News
Scientific American -Fox News -The Verge
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U.S. News & World Report
Study: Pollution Exposure Associated With ADHD in Children
U.S. News & World Report
Children who lived in areas with high levels of "traffic-related air pollution" when they were a year old were significantly more likely by age 7 to have ADHD than children who lived in less polluted areas. The study, published Tuesday in NIH's ...
ADHD linked to traffic pollutionWVXU
Air pollution could link to ADHD in childrenInternational Environmental Technology
Children who live near a busy road are more likely to develop ADHDDaily Mail
allvoices -Medical Daily
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ADHD in Childhood Linked to Adult Obesity
PsychCentral.com
ADHD in Childhood Linked to Adult Obesity Researchers have discovered that men diagnosed as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were twice as likely to be obese adults. Investigators from the Child Study Center at New York ...

UPI.com
ADHD in childhood may be linked to obesity in adults
UPI.com
The study found at age 41, the men who had ADHD weighed an average of 213 pounds, and 41 percent of them were obese, while the men who hadn't had ADHD weighed 194 pounds on average, and 22 percent were obese. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn ...

Research shows possible link between ADHD and obesity
WEAR
Experts also aren't sure what's behind the apparent link, though they suspect the impulsivity associated with ADHD may make it more difficult for those patients to monitor their eating, which could lead to abnormal food habits and obesity. Researchers ...

Deseret News
Childhood ADHD linked to obesity in adulthood according to new study
Deseret News
ADHD is a disorder characterized by hyperactivity, impulsiveness, inattention and an inability to focus. It affects approximately 6.8 percent of U.S. children ages 3 to 17 in any given year, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease ...

Boys with ADHD may become obese adults
myfox8.com
(CNN) — Boys with ADHD may be at risk for obesity later in life, according to a new study – which, if confirmed in larger studies, may have implications for more than 4 million kids in the United States living with the disorder. Researchers at NYU's ...

NPR (blog)
ADHD In Childhood May Feed Obesity In Adults
NPR (blog)
Men who were diagnosed with ADHD as children are more likely to be obese in adulthood, according to a new study. The men who had ADHD weighed 19 pounds more at age 41 than otherwise similar men who hadn't had ADHD as boys, the researchers ...
Men who had ADHD as kids may be more likely to be obese as adultsCBS News
ADHD In Childhood May Lead To Obesity In Adulthood - Medical News TodayMedical News Today
Childhood ADHD tied to obesity decades laterFox News
The Verge -Scientific American -WebMD
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Is ADHD linked to obesity? New study suggests connection
GlobalPost
A new study, conducted out of New York and published in the "Pediatrics" journal, found that men diagnosed with childhood ADHD had considerably higher obesity rates and BMIs than their non-ADHD counterparts: according to MedPageToday, 41.4% of the ...

Link Between Childhood ADHD and Obesity Revealed in First Long-Term Study
Science Daily (press release)
May 20, 2013 — A new study conducted by researchers at the Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center found men diagnosed as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were twice as likely to be obese in a 33-year follow-up ...

Boys with ADHD may become obese adults
CNN (blog)
Boys with ADHD may be at risk for obesity later in life, according to a new study - which, if confirmed in larger studies, may have implications for the more than 4 million kids in the United States living with the disorder. Researchers at NYU's ...

ADHD in Childhood May Raise Future Obesity Risk
WebMD
MONDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Boys who are diagnosed with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are twice as likely to become obese adults as those who didn't have the disorder when they were young, a new 30-year study shows.

ADHD or Sleep Disorder: Are We Getting It Wrong?
Huffington Post
Millions of children and adults struggle with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a condition marked by problems with concentration, impulse control, organization, and memory. It can be a frustrating and difficult condition ...

ADHD May Prime Boys for Obesity
TIME
The researchers say they did not set out to explore the relationship between ADHD and weight; the study was actually designed to investigate new insights into brain structures differences among people with ADHD. But in 2003, when researchers received a ...

ADHD in childhood linked to adult obesity, study finds
NBCNews.com (blog)
By Linda Carroll. A typical boy with ADHD can appear to be in perpetual motion, but that activity doesn't guarantee a healthy weight when he grows up. A long-term study released Monday finds that men diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity ...

Scientific American
Childhood ADHD tied to obesity decades later
Reuters
Data for the new study came from 207 white boys with ADHD who were referred to a research clinic at around age eight and followed as they grew up. Ten years later another group of teenage boys without ADHD, who were otherwise similar to the original ...
Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in AdulthoodScientific American
ADHD in childhood linked to adult obesity, study findsNBCNews.com (blog)
ADHD in Kids Tied to Adult Obesity - MedPage TodayMedPage Today
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ADHD in Kids Tied to Adult Obesity - MedPage Today
MedPage Today
"We are paying attention to obesity more and more these days. It would make a lot of sense to perhaps emphasize that issue with boys who have ADHD as they move into adulthood, no matter what," Charles Shubin, MD, of Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, ...

Researchers suspect ADHD may be linked to lack of sunlight
ConsumerAffairs
For years, researchers have been studying the internal factors that lead to children who have ADHD, but now a group of researchers are looking at external factors, known as "The 3 S's" -- sunlight, sleep and screens. Eugene Arnold, MD, a psychiatrist ...