{"id":20642,"date":"2025-01-23T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20642"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:23:53","slug":"people-with-a-d-h-d-are-likely-to-die-significantly-earlier-than-their-peers-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20642","title":{"rendered":"People With A.D.H.D. Are Likely to Die Significantly Earlier Than Their Peers, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A large study found that men lost seven years of life expectancy and women lost nine years, compared with counterparts without the disorder.<\/p>\n

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A study of more than 30,000 British adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., found that, on average, they were dying earlier than their counterparts in the general population \u2014 around seven years earlier for men, and around nine for women.<\/p>\n

The study, which was published Thursday<\/a> in The British Journal of Psychiatry, is believed to be the first to use all-cause mortality data to estimate life expectancy in people with A.D.H.D. Previous studies have pointed to an array of risks associated with the condition, among them poverty, mental health disorders, smoking and substance abuse.<\/p>\n

The authors cautioned that A.D.H.D. is substantially underdiagnosed and that the people in their study \u2014 most of them diagnosed as young adults \u2014 might be among the more severely affected. Still, they described their findings as \u201cextremely concerning,\u201d highlighting unmet needs that \u201crequire urgent attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big number, and it is worrying,\u201d said Joshua Stott, a professor of aging and clinical psychology at University College London and an author of the study. \u201cI see it as likely to be more about health inequality than anything else. But it\u2019s quite a big health inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The study did not identify causes of early death among people with A.D.H.D. but found that they were twice as likely as the general population to smoke or abuse alcohol and that they had far higher rates of autism, self-harming behaviors and personality disorders than the general population. In adulthood, Dr. Stott said, \u201cthey find it harder to manage impulses, and have more risky behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said health care systems might need to adjust in order to better serve people with A.D.H.D., who may have sensory sensitivity or difficulty managing time or communicating with clinicians during brief appointments. He said he hoped treatments for substance abuse or depression could be adapted for patients with A.D.H.D.<\/p>\n

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A large study found that men lost seven years of life expectancy and women lost nine years, compared with counterparts without the disorder.A study of more than 30,000 British adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., found that, on average, they were dying earlier than their counterparts in the general population \u2014 around seven years earlier for men, and around nine for women.The study, which was published Thursday in The British Journal of Psychiatry, is believed to be the first to use all-cause mortality data to estimate life expectancy in people with A.D.H.D. Previous studies have pointed to an array of risks associated with the condition, among them poverty, mental health disorders, smoking and substance abuse.The authors cautioned that A.D.H.D. is substantially underdiagnosed and that the people in their study \u2014 most of them diagnosed as young adults \u2014 might be among the more severely affected. Still, they described their findings as \u201cextremely concerning,\u201d highlighting unmet needs that \u201crequire urgent attention.\u201d\u201cIt\u2019s a big number, and it is worrying,\u201d said Joshua Stott, a professor of aging and clinical psychology at University College London and an author of the study. \u201cI see it as likely to be more about health inequality than anything else. But it\u2019s quite a big health inequality.\u201dThe study did not identify causes of early death among people with A.D.H.D. but found that they were twice as likely as the general population to smoke or abuse alcohol and that they had far higher rates of autism, self-harming behaviors and personality disorders than the general population. In adulthood, Dr. Stott said, \u201cthey find it harder to manage impulses, and have more risky behaviors.\u201dHe said health care systems might need to adjust in order to better serve people with A.D.H.D., who may have sensory sensitivity or difficulty managing time or communicating with clinicians during brief appointments. He said he hoped treatments for substance abuse or depression could be adapted for patients with A.D.H.D.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20644,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20645,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions\/20645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}