�Girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disarray stand a substantially greater risk of developing eating disorders in adolescence than girls without ADHD, a new study has found.
"Adolescent girls with ADHD frequently develop body-image dissatisfaction and may go through repetition cycles of binge feeding and purgation behaviors that are common in binge-eating syndrome nervosa," aforesaid University of Virginia psychologist Amori Yee Mikami, world Health Organization led the study.
The findings appear in the stream issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
ADHD is a disorder that affects about 5 percent of school-age children, and three times more than boys than girls. Symptoms include a short attending span, short organization, excessive talking, turbulent and aggressive behavior, fidgetiness and excitability. Many children with ADHD suffer through a orbit of problems, from poor grades to poor dealings with parents and teachers, and more than than half have serious problems fashioning friends.
Because the disorder is far more common in boys, researchers are noneffervescent learning its long-term effects on girls.
"Our finding suggests that girls may develop a broader range of problems in adolescence than their male person counterparts," Mikami said. "They may be at risk for feeding problems, which are a female-relevant domain of impairment. We know that eating disorders occur 10 times more much in girls than boys."
Additionally, Mikami notable that because ADHD is more usual in boys, many girls with the disorder whitethorn go undiagnosed and untreated.
"Girls with ADHD may be more at risk of developing feeding problems as adolescents because they already have impulsive behaviors that can set them apart from their peers," Mikami said. "As they
