Psychiatric comorbidities in women with cardiometabolic conditions with and without ADHD: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Leveraging a large nationwide study of Icelandic women, we aimed to narrow the evidence gap around female attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cardiometabolic comorbidities by determining the prevalence of obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases among women with ADHD and examine the association between cardiometabolic conditions and co-occurring ADHD with anxiety and mood disorders, alcoholism/substance use disorder (SUD), self-harm, and suicide attempts.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the nationwide, all-female, population-based SAGA Cohort Study (n = 26,668). To ascertain diagnoses and symptoms, we used self-reported history of ADHD diagnoses, selected cardiometabolic conditions and psychiatric disor

SUBMITTER: Smari UJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10659052 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature