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Getty imagesA study suggests a study to those who can reduce their risk of substance abuse, suicide behavior, transport accidents and criminality to new diagnosis with drug treatment, ADHD (attention deficit activity disorder).
These issues are associated with common ADHD symptoms such as working impulsively and getting distracted easily.
Some 5% of children and 2.5% of adults worldwide are considered affected by disorders – and increasing numbers are being diagnosed.
Conclusions published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), confirm the extensive potential benefits of drug treatment and can help patients decide what to start medicine, researchers say.
Having ADHD means that the brain works differently for most other people.
Symptoms may include focus and still having difficulty sitting, due to high energy levels and impulses.
Despite the increase in people asking for help, the disorder is not much common. Last year, a BBC investigation waited for a long time for evaluation in the UK.
People are diagnosed only when symptoms have a minimum of moderate effect on their lives.
The most prescribed drugs, called stimulants, help manage everyday symptoms, but there are limited evidence of long -term benefits for people’s behavior, while well -propagated side effects, such as headache, loss of appetite and trouble in sleeping, have debated their safety.
The BMJ study was based on 148,500 people between the ages of six to 64 years with ADHD in Sweden.
Some 57% started drug treatment and, of these, MethylaphenidateWas determined, up to 88%.
Researchers at Karolinska Institute at Southampton University and Stockholm found that ADHD was first associated with the cuts of examples from taking medicines:
- Suicide behavior – 17%
- Abuse of substance – 15%
- Transport Accidents – 12%
- Criminal behavior – 13%
When the recurrent events were analyzed, the researchers found that ADHD was associated with the deduction of the drug:
- 15% for suicide attempts
- 25% for misuse of substance
- 4% for accidental injuries
- 16% for transport accidents
- 25% for criminal behavior
“There is often no idea that if you do not treat ADHD, what is the risk,” Professor Samuel Cortez, Study Writer and Professor of Child and Adolate Psychiatrics of Sauthmpton, “said Professor, Professor and Professor Professor Professor Professor at Southampton University.
“Now we have those evidence [drugs] Can reduce these risks. ,
This impulsive begging can be explained by drug reducing the lack of behavior and concentration, which can reduce the risk of accidents when driving and reduce aggressive behavior that can lead to criminality.
Researchers say the study was designed to be as strong as possible, but could not dismiss the possibility that the results were influenced by factors such as people’s genes, lifestyle and severity of their ADHD.
In many countries it is not easy for ADHD to use the right medicine, with some drugs in low supply. After the diagnosis to reach the drugs, the waiting time in the UK to see experts may be several years.
Prof. Stuart Kinnar, head of the Justice Health Group at the University of Kartin in Western Australia, stated that the research demonstrated “the spread of ADHD diagnosis and treatment”.
“Failure to diagnose and treat ADHD can cause self-medication with alcohol or other drugs, poor mental health, injury and dislocation,” he said.
“Many people end up in the criminal justice system with unspecified ADHD, where their position may remain uncontrolled and untreated.”
Professor Ian Madment at Clinical Pharmacy at Aston University stated that the study “connects our understanding of the possible benefits of these drugs”.
However, he said that research did not assess whether patients actually took their medicine or the effect of various doses.
