ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2014
Children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and their hospitalisations: population data linkage study.
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- Association and Interacting Factors between Bronchial Asthma and Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children: Meta-analysis and Systematic Review.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2023Pooled it
- Risk of poisoning in children and adolescents with ADHD: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2018Pooled it
- Medical comorbidities in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2017Pooled it
- Functional somatic symptoms in preschool attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial of parent training.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Prevalence of anxiety symptoms among caregivers of children with ADHD attending pediatric and speech therapy departments.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Medical disorders in a Danish cohort of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Association Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Risk of Burn Injury: A Propensity-Matched Cohort Study.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2020Article
- The efficacy of physical therapy on the improvement of the motor components of visual attention in children with cerebral palsy: a case series study.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Evaluating the relationship between adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and riding behavior of motorcyclists.Journal of injury & violence research · 2019Article
- Genetic correlations among psychiatric and immune-related phenotypes based on genome-wide association data.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2018Article
- Further evidence for the role of pregnancy-induced hypertension and other early life influences in the development of ADHD: results from the IDEFICS study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2017Article
- Risky bicycling behavior among youth with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2016Article
- Child attention deficit hyperactive disorder co morbidities on family stress: effect of medication.Community mental health journal · 2015Article
- Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, risky behaviors, and motorcycle injuries: a case-control study.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2015Article
- Large sample size in child and adolescent psychiatric research: the way of salvation?European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2014Article
- Optimizing fitness for duty and post-combat clinical services for military personnel and combat veterans with ADHD-a systematic review of the current literature.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Examine the hospital admission risk in young children who are subsequently diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We conducted a population-based, record linkage study. Records of all non-Aboriginal children under 18 years who met the DSMIV/ICD10 criteria for ADHD and prescribed stimulant medication in Western Australia between 2003 and 2007 (n = 11,902) were linked to two other health data systems-the hospital morbidity data system and the midwives notification system (MNS). The non-ADHD reference population (n = 27,304) was randomly selected from the MNS. Compared with controls, children under 4 years who subsequently were diagnosed and treated for ADHD were 70% [odds ratio (OR) 1.70; 95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.62-1.77] more likely to be admitted to hospital under 4 years of age. There was an increased risk for injury or poison (OR 1.73; 95% CI 1.59-1.88), respiratory disease (OR 1.49; 95% CI 1.40-1.59), ear disease (OR 2.03; 95% CI 1.86-2.21), infectious diseases (OR 1.68; 95% CI 1.53-1.85) and neurological conditions (OR 2.03; 95% CI 1.68-2.44). Admissions under 4 years of age for head injuries, burns, poisons, all other injuries, diseases of the tonsils and adenoids, asthma and early infections were all more common amongst children subsequently diagnosed with and treated for ADHD. There is significant early hospital morbidity for children subsequently diagnosed with ADHD. Multiple aetiologies and causal pathways need to be considered where some of these may include early infections, inflammatory conditions, epilepsy and injuries. Future studies should look at which of these conditions may be on the causal pathway or likely early markers for ADHD.
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