Children who display symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely to be obese as adults, a new study suggests.
Funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, a team of Duke researchers began investigating the correlation between ADHD symptoms and young-adult obesity starting last year.
The study builds on other scientific literature published in the past 10 or 15 years, which has pointed a direct relationship between clinical populations of individuals diagnosed with ADHD and higher rates of obesity, said Scott Kollins, director of the Duke ADHD Program and co-author of the study.
“We wanted to see what this relationship looked like in people who might have symptoms of ADHD but not meet the full threshold for the diagnosis,” Kollins said, emphasizing that even those not diagnosed with ADHD are at a higher risk.
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