Source: Nuklearmedizin | Posted 9 years ago
Original contribution : attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type (adhd-ct): differences in blood pressure (bp) due to posture and the child report of anxiety
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Careful and thorough assessment of the child's perspective on anxiety is important in school-aged children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type (ADHD-CT).
"Recognition of anxiety and its management in primary school-age children with ADHD-CT is generally poorly understood," Australian researchers comment.
Investigators from Alfred Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service, the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria and LaTrobe University in Melbourne say the characteristics of such anxiety and its association with postural BP requires further longitudinal study.
"In this particular group of children, only the child's report of anxiety was associated with significantly increased diastolic blood pressure (BP) from a sitting position...Therefore, careful and thorough assessment of the child's perspective is required."
The researchers enrolled 38 medication-na
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