HealthDay (8/27, Preidt) reports, “Young adults who’ve had attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” (AD/HD) “since childhood are at increased risk for road crashes, researchers” concluded after analyzing “data from 441 children with” AD/HD “and 231 children without” AD/HD who “were followed from age seven to 25 as part of a study that involved six centers in the United States and one in Canada.” The study also revealed “no increased risk for those whose” AD/HD “symptoms have decreased.” The findings were published online Aug. 22 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “ADHD May Help Predict Adults’ Car Crash Risk, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, August 27, 2020