Adult ADHD significantly increases risk of common form of dementia
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 12:41
in Health & Medicine
Adults who suffer from attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more than three times as likely to develop a common form of degenerative dementia than those without. Researchers confirmed the link during a study of 360 patients with degenerative dementia and 149 healthy controls, matched by age, sex and education.