HealthDay (3/3, Norton) reports, “College students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” (AD/HD) appear to “have a harder time making it to graduation than their peers do,” investigators concluded. In the study, “researchers found that of 400 students they followed, those with” AD/HD “had a lower grade-point average (GPA) – about half a grade lower – than students without the disorder.” What’s more, “students with” AD/HD “were less likely to make it through four years,” the study revealed. The findings were published online in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.

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— “College Students With ADHD Have Lower Grades, Higher Dropout Rates “Amy Norton, HealthDay, March 3, 2021

HealthDay (3/3, Preidt) reports researchers examined data on media use and binge-eating in children and concluded that “each additional hour that children spent on social media was associated with a 62% higher risk of binge-eating disorder one year later, and each extra hour spent watching or streaming television or movies was linked with a 39% higher risk of binge-eating disorder one year later.” The findings were published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

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— “Social Media, Binge Eating Often Go Together for Kids “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, March 3, 2021

Healio (3/3, Downey) reports researchers found in a meta-analysis that “children and adolescents who bully their peers have a higher risk for drug, alcohol and tobacco use later in life.” The review study was published in Pediatrics.

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— “Children And Adolescents Who Bully Peers Have Higher Risk For Substance Use Later In Life, Review Study Indicates “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, March 3, 2021

Healio (3/2, Michael) reports, “Increased incarceration rates in counties across the U.S. were linked to increased risk for mortality from infectious diseases, chronic lower respiratory disease, substance abuse, suicide and multiple other causes,” researchers concluded after conducting “a retrospective, longitudinal study using data on U.S. county-level incarceration from 1987 to 2017 from the Vera Institute of Justice, and data on cause-specific mortality in people aged younger than 75 years from 1988 to 2018 collected from the U.S. National Vital Statistics System.” The findings were published online Feb. 23 in The Lancet Public Health.

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— “Incarceration rates linked to elevated risk for premature death “Erin Michael, Healio, March 2, 2021

MedPage Today (3/2, Fiore) reports that for much of 2020, “teens’ mental health services accounted for a much greater proportion of all their medical claims than in the past,” according to a paper (PDF) from FAIR Health. MedPage Today adds, “Mental health claims essentially doubled as a percentage of all medical claims for individuals age 13-18 in March (+97%) and April (+103.5%) of 2020 compared with the same periods a year earlier,” according to the paper.

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Healio (3/2, Gramigna) reports, “A significant proportion of youths may experience post-traumatic stress [PTS] symptoms after a natural disaster,” investigators concluded in a study that sought to assess “PTS symptom trajectories among 1,707 youth, for whom the mean age was 9.61 years and of whom 46% self-identified as white non-Hispanic, after four major U.S. hurricanes, as well as to assess factors linked to those trajectories.” The findings were published online Feb. 15 in JAMA Network Open.

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— “Many youths experience post-traumatic stress after natural disasters, study finds “Joe Gramigna, Healio, March 2, 2021

Psychiatric News (3/2) reports, “Suicide rates among men aged 65 years and older in the United States have been steadily rising since 2007,” researchers concluded in a study that analyzed “suicide data from 1999 to 2018 reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) database.” The study also “revealed that men who are White, aged 85 years or older, and living in rural areas may be at greatest risk.” The findings were published online Feb. 27 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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— “Study Highlights Rising Number of Older U.S. Men Dying by Suicide, Psychiatric News, March 2, 2021

CHEST Physician (3/1, Craven) reports, “Among individuals with asthma and allergies who use cannabis, more than half said they aren’t willing to discuss their use of cannabis with their” physician. What’s more, their physician “doesn’t ask, according to recent research at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, held virtually this year.” The “online survey of respondents with asthma and allergies in the Allergy & Asthma Network” included 489 respondents.

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— “Patients with asthma say most doctors don’t ask about cannabis use “Jeff Craven, CHEST Physician, March 1, 2021

HealthDay (3/1, Reinberg) reports for people with chronic migraine, “marijuana use was linked to rebound headaches, which can occur when pain medication is overused, scientists noted.”

MedPage Today (3/1, George) reports, “In an analysis of 368 patients with chronic migraines, current cannabis use predicted cases of medication overuse headache,” investigators found. The findings were released ahead of the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.

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— “Pot May Not Be the Best Rx for a Migraine “Steven Reinberg, HealthDay, March 1, 2021

Healio (3/1, Gramigna) reports, “Women appear to have greater cognitive reserve but faster cognitive decline vs. men,” investigators concluded in a study that used “pooled analysis on data of 26,088 individuals who self-reported Black or white race, were free of stroke and dementia and had covariate data at or before the first cognitive assessment.” The findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.

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— “Biological sex may play role in late-life risk for cognitive decline “Joe Gramigna, Healio, March 1, 2021