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Article: Comorbidities affect preschoolers' response to ADHD therapy.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)(Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders)(Clinical report)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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SAN DIEGO -- Preschool children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder who had three or more co-morbid disorders responded less favorably to 5 weeks of methylphenidate treatment, compared with children who had fewer comorbid disorders, according to the results of a randomized study.
Dr. Jaswinder K. Ghuman reported the findings of a secondary analysis of the National Institute of Mental Health Preschool and Treatment Study (PATS) at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Ghuman and her associates examined baseline characteristics of methylphenidate treatment response in 165 children aged 3.5-5 years who ...