Sexual maturation among youth with ADHD and the impact of stimulant medication.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
; 23(9): 835-9, 2014 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-24488239
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Evaluate the differences in achieving puberty between ADHD and non-ADHD participants and the effects of medication on that process among ADHD participants. PROCEDURE A subset of participants with ADHD from the Multimodal Treatment study of ADHD (n = 342) were compared with respect to Tanner staging to participants from a comparison group without ADHD (n = 159) at the 36-month follow-up assessment. Further comparisons were made for Tanner stages and Auxology of the participants in the ADHD group who were always (n = 61), never (n = 56), newly (n = 74) and inconsistently (n = 116) treated with stimulants.RESULTS:
No statistically significant differences in Tanner stages of sexual development were found between the ADHD and non-ADHD groups at the age of assessment (between 10 and 14 years of age) or among the ADHD medication subgroups, although a trend was observed for stimulant-associated delayed pubertal initiation using auxological analysis.CONCLUSION:
Children with or without ADHD did not differ in Tanner stages at the 3-year follow-up assessment, and exposure to stimulant medication does not appear to affect sexual development within this age range.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade
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Maturidade Sexual
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Puberdade
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Estimulantes do Sistema Nervoso Central
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article