Obesity in Children Untreated for ADHD

Abstract

The prevalence of overweight in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity was determined by cross-sectional analysis of 62,887 children aged 5 to 17 years from the 2003-2004 National Survey of Children’s Health, in a study at Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.

Keywords

• ethnicity
• socioeconomic status
• independent of gender