Compared to other killers from a public health standpoint, ADHD is bad. Smoking, for example, reduces life expectancy by 2.4 years, and if you smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day you’re down about 6.5 years. For diabetes and obesity it’s a couple of years. For elevated blood cholesterol, it’s 9 months. ADHD is worse than...
A group of boys with ADHD - now men - were followed into adulthood and this data was then calculated.
If you remove the likelihood of accidental death via extreme risk taking (poor safety adherence in sports, etc) and substance abuse, you’re accounting for a five year difference.
This article wasn’t interesting at all because a basic logical conclusion would tell anyone that if you’re amongst a group with more risk taking, you’ll have a higher than average mortality rate.
The more interesting bit, is why is there a 5 year difference if you account for all those variables? Is that even an appropriate statistic to then use? Shrug, I find these types of articles are…almost hilariously self-defeating. Just pure doomerism for folks with ADHD that hate themselves for it.
ADHD has real health effects
Compared to other killers from a public health standpoint, ADHD is bad. Smoking, for example, reduces life expectancy by 2.4 years, and if you smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day you’re down about 6.5 years. For diabetes and obesity it’s a couple of years. For elevated blood cholesterol, it’s 9 months. ADHD is worse than...