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AAP Grand Rounds 15:53-54 (2006)
© 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics

DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS

Hyperactive Children: What They Face as Adults

Source: Barkley RA, Fischer M, Smallish L, et al. Young adult outcome of hyperactive children: adaptive functioning in major life activities. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2006;45:192–202.[Medline]

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Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and the University of Massachusetts, Worcester, sought to quantify functional outcomes in 149 young adults who had been diagnosed with childhood hyperactivity. These patients had a history of significant problems with inattention and impulse control as children and had scored at ≥98th percentile on several rating scales of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. Study participants in the hyperactive group and a group of community controls (n=81) were followed for at least 13 years. At follow-up 94% participated; 91% were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alison Schonwald, MD, FAAP
Developmental Medicine Center, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA