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August 28th 2023
These approvals of generics by the FDA can help to provide for patients with ADHD or BED the same clinical benefits as well as risks as the drugs’ brand-name counterparts.
Treatment with benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, and antidepressants was associated with an increased risk of all-cause hospitalization or mortality, while mood stabilizer treatment did not have a statistically significant association with any of the predetermined outcomes and ADHD medications were linked to a lower risk of psychiatric hospitalization.
Psychosocial Familial Factors Associated With Symptom Severity for Pediatric ADHD
Parenting stress, negative parenting practices, broken parental partnership, critical life events, parental psychopathologies, socioeconomic status, and single-parent family were all significantly associated with ADHD symptom severity.
No Associations Between ADHD Medications, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Found
They also found no statistically significant associations found for specific cardiovascular outcomes in relation to cardiac arrest or arrhythmias, cerebrovascular diseases, or myocardial infarction.