Most likely, you'll be seeing a lot of headlines today trumpeting the findings of a new study in JAMA Pediatrics about links between acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) use during pregnancy and later risk of ADHD or
hyperkinetic disorders in children.
Not exact matches
In a report in the current online edition of JAMA Pediatrics, researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health show that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk in children of attention - deficity / hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorde
In a report
in the current online edition of JAMA Pediatrics, researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health show that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk in children of attention - deficity / hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorde
in the current online edition of JAMA Pediatrics, researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health show that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk
in children of attention - deficity / hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorde
in children of attention - deficity / hyperactivity
disorder and
hyperkinetic disorder.
The risks for
hyperkinetic disorder / ADHD
in children were elevated 50 percent or more when the mothers had used the common painkiller for more than 20 weeks
in pregnancy.
A
hyperkinetic movement
disorder occurred
in all and was characterized by dystonia and choreoathetosis with prominent oral dyskinesia and onset from 2 to 20 months of age.
In the 1950s and»60s the terms for it were minimal brain damage, Strauss Syndrome,
hyperkinetic impulse
disorder, minimal brain dysfunction, and
hyperkinetic reaction of childhood.
Some children with primary
hyperkinetic disorders will also be abused or subject to poor parenting, itself a risk factor for delinquency and for poor outcomes
in ADHD (figure 2).
Careful assessment of children is necessary as a proportion (a third
in this trial) have coexistent psychiatric diagnoses, such as the
hyperkinetic syndrome, post-traumatic stress
disorder, and encopresis, that require additional treatment.
Participants were prospectively recruited from child and adolescent psychiatry and child health clinics
in the United Kingdom and included 240 clinic children who met diagnostic criteria for attention - deficit / hyperactivity
disorder or
hyperkinetic disorder.