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.

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