Study: ADHD raises adult suicide risk, especially for women
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Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, have a strikingly high prevalence of attempted suicide, with women being at particular risk, researchers say.
The study of nearly 22,000 Canadian adults found that 14% of those with ADHD had attempted suicide. That was roughly five times the rate of adults without ADHD, at 2.7%.
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The findings among women were particularly worrisome, the researchers said. Almost one-quarter of those with ADHD said they had attempted suicide. To see these numbers is devastating, said lead researcher Esme Fuller-Thomson, a professor at the University of Toronto s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in Canada.
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Canadian study reveals one in four women with ADHD has attempted suicide ANI | Updated: Dec 22, 2020 22:28 IST
Toronto [Canada], December 22 (ANI): A nationally representative Canadian study reported that the lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts was much higher (24 per cent ) for women with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) compared to those women who did not (3 per cent).
Men with ADHD were also more likely to have attempted suicide than those without the disorder. (9 per cent vs. 2 per cent ).
The study was published in the journal Archives of Suicide Research. ADHD casts a very long shadow. Even when we took into account history of mental illness, and the higher levels of poverty and early adversities that adults with ADHD often experience, those with ADHD still had 56 per cent higher odds of having attempted suicide than their peers without ADHD reported lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, Professor at University of Toront
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