The hyperactivity disorder, usually referred to as ADHD, is an independent risk factor for several common and serious mental health issues, finds research published in the open access journal BMJ Mental Health.
It is associated with major depression, post traumatic stress disorder, the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, and suicide attempts, the findings show, prompting the researchers to recommend vigilance by health professionals in a bid to ward off these disorders later on.
To try and find out, the researchers used Mendelian randomisation, a technique that uses genetic variants as proxies for a particular risk factor-;in this case ADHD-;to obtain genetic evidence in support of a particular outcome-;in this study, 7 common mental health issues. There was no evidence for a causal link between ADHD and bipolar disorder, anxiety, or schizophrenia, the results of the analysis showed.
The researchers caution that while Mendelian randomisation is less prone than observational studies to the influence of unmeasured factors and reverse causality-;whereby ADHD could be a consequence of the various disorders studied rather than the other way round-;it is not without its limitations.
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