HealthMore in Health→
ADHD and Autism Diagnoses in Denmark Now Look More Like the General Population, Study Finds
Key Takeaways
- A study led by ISGlobal and Aarhus University examined more than 2.1 million children and adolescents in Denmark.
- Researchers compared over 71,000 individuals diagnosed with ADHD or ASD between 2012 and 2022 with more than 713,000 peers without those diagnoses.
- Diagnosed children still showed higher rates of preterm birth, low birth weight, socioeconomic disadvantage, and parental psychiatric history, but the gaps narrowed over the decade.
- The low birth weight gap fell from a 54% higher likelihood of diagnosis at the start of the period to 17% by the end.
DE
DT Editorial Team··via medicalxpress.com