Medical and Psychiatric Comorbidities in Korean Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Psychiatry Investigation
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: 817-824, 2017.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with a high rate of comorbid disorders. We aimed to investigate the medical and psychiatric comorbidities of Korean children and adolescents with ADHD.METHODS:
Data were obtained from Korean National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service-National Patient Sample (HI-RA-NPS) for 2011. We included 2,140 (mean age, 10.9±3.1 years; boys, 1,710) and 219,410 (non-ADHD; mean age, 12.4±3.7 years; boys, 113,704) children and adolescents with and without ADHD, respectively. We compared medical and psychiatric comorbidities between the groups, and performed weighted logistic regression analyses to obtain odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).RESULTS:
Most medical comorbidities were more likely in patients with ADHD and included nervous system disease (OR, 2.59; 95% CI, 2.52–2.66); endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic disease (OR, 2.09; 95% CI, 2.04–2.15); and congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (OR, 2.00; 95% CI, 1.90–2.11). Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder were more prevalent in patients with ADHD (OR, 81.88; 95% CI, 79.00–84.86), followed by learning (OR, 75.61; 95% CI, 69.69–82.04), and depressive disorders (OR, 55.76; 95% CI, 54.44–57.11).CONCLUSION:
Our results suggest that Korean children and adolescents with ADHD are more likely to suffer medical and psychiatric comorbidities than those without ADHD.
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Main subject:
Comorbidity
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Logistic Models
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Odds Ratio
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Chromosome Aberrations
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Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
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Conduct Disorder
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Depressive Disorder
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Learning
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Metabolic Diseases
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National Health Programs
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Psychiatry Investigation
Year:
2017
Type:
Article
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