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  2. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies

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    These guidelines reviewed studies by Ford et al. that found that 3.6 percent of boys and 0.85 percent of girls in Britain qualified for a diagnosis of ADHD using the American DSM-IV criteria. [11] The guidelines go on to state that the prevalence drops to 1.5% when using the stricter criteria for the ICD-10 diagnosis of hyperkinetic disorder ...

  3. Epidemiology of attention deficit hyperactive disorder

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    Results from a cross-sectional study in Qatar Independent and Private Schools revealed that boys between the ages of 6 and 9 exhibited the most ADHD symptoms, with 16.36% of them scoring higher than the 5% threshold for the disorder on the SNAP-IV, standardized rating scale, as opposed to only 4.13% of girls in the same age group. 12.32% of the ...

  4. Rise in diagnoses is prompting more US adults to ask: 'Do I ...

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    A family doctor suggested ADHD testing, which led to an unexpected discovery: The teen had ADHD, and Burk did too. A recent study suggested that more than 15 million U.S. adults — roughly 1 in ...

  5. Youngest kids in class have higher risk of ADHD diagnosis - AOL

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    To see how students' age relative to their classmates might influence their odds of an ADHD diagnosis, Chen and colleagues analyzed data on about 370,000 Taiwanese children aged 4 to 17 years ...

  6. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia

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    ADHD is diagnosed approximately twice as often in boys as in girls, [5] [336] and 1.6 times more often in men than in women, [5] although the disorder is overlooked in girls or diagnosed in later life because their symptoms sometimes differ from diagnostic criteria.

  7. ADHD looks different in adults: How to recognize the ... - AOL

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    ADHD is the same condition in children and adults, but it can present differently in grown-ups, says Joshua M. Langberg, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist in the Rutgers Graduate School of ...