编辑:处理注意力缺陷/多动障碍和肥胖的关系
1College of Medicine, Nisonger Center, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
|February 2, 2025
概括
注意缺陷/多动障碍 (ADHD) 与超重和肥胖有关,ADHD症状预测年轻人身体质量指数 (BMI) 更高. 这种关联在女孩身上出现得更早,突显了综合公共卫生方法的必要性.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 神经发育障碍 神经发育障碍
- 儿科 儿科 儿科
背景情况:
- 超重/肥胖和注意力缺陷/多动障碍 (ADHD) 是普遍存在的儿童疾病.
- 这两种情况都有共同的风险因素,并且倾向于在童年时期出现.
研究的目的:
- 研究英国出生队列中ADHD和超重/肥胖之间的纵向关系.
- 检查ADHD症状严重程度如何影响身体质量指数 (BMI) 随时间的推移.
- 为了确定这些同时发生的疾病的发病和进展的潜在性别差异.
主要方法:
- 分析了来自7908名英国青年的横截面和纵向数据.
- 包括442名患有ADHD的参与者 (被诊断或父母评价).
- 应用交叉差距纵向视角来评估双向关联.
主要成果:
- 低出生体重与ADHD和超重/肥胖症有关.
- 过重的过渡发生在学龄前年 (3-5岁) 对于ADHD儿童.
- ADHD症状严重程度预测男性和女性的BMI都会更高,而女孩则更早发病.
- 在7岁,11岁和14岁的女孩中,ADHD症状较高预示着分别在11,14岁和17岁的女孩的BMI较高.
结论:
- ADHD和超重/肥胖是相互关联的,在ADHD症状之前和预测增加的BMI.
- 对ADHD的早期识别和干预可能有助于减轻患超重/肥胖的风险.
- 这些发现强调了在公共卫生策略和临床实践中考虑并发疾病的重要性.
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