India, Oct. 13 -- A study of more than 187,000 older adults has found that people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have more than four times the risk of developing dementia or mild cognitive impairment.
The study was led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and published in JAMA Psychiatry. The team used medical and genetic data from the US National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program to examine the relationship between ADHD and cognitive decline.
All participants were at least 50 years old at the start of the study. Their medical records covered an average of about 10 years, with data collected between 1985 and late 2023.
Among the 187,341 participants, 3,026 had an ADHD...