AI Article Synopsis
- The study investigated the link between dietary patterns and ADHD symptoms in school-aged children, specifically whether diet quality influences ADHD severity or the other way around.
- Researchers analyzed data from 3,680 children in the Generation R Study, focusing on ADHD symptoms reported by parents and dietary intake assessed via a food-frequency questionnaire.
- Findings indicated that higher ADHD symptoms at age 6 were connected to poorer diet quality at age 8, but diet quality at age 8 did not impact ADHD symptoms by age 10, suggesting that ADHD symptoms may lead to unhealthy eating rather than the reverse.
Article Abstract
Background: As an adjuvant for medication, dietary changes focused on specific nutrients have been proposed to prevent or reduce attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. However, whether an overall healthy dietary pattern is associated with ADHD symptom severity during childhood remains unclear. Furthermore, it is not clear what the direction of this association is.
Objectives: We aimed to examine the association between dietary patterns and ADHD symptoms in school-aged children. In addition, we aimed to identify the temporal direction of this association-that is, whether dietary patterns predict ADHD symptoms or vice versa.
Methods: We analyzed data from 3680 children participating in the Generation R Study, a prospective cohort in Rotterdam, Netherlands. ADHD symptoms were assessed with parent-report questionnaires at ages 6 and 10 y using the Child Behavior Checklist. Dietary intake was assessed at the age of 8 y with a validated food-frequency questionnaire. We computed a diet quality score reflecting adherence to dietary guidelines. We examined bidirectional associations of diet quality with ADHD symptom scores using multivariable linear regression analysis and cross-lagged modeling.
Results: Linear regressions showed that more ADHD symptoms at age 6 y were associated with a lower diet quality score at age 8 y (SD score = -0.08; 95% CI: -0.11, -0.05) but that diet quality at age 8 y was not associated with ADHD symptoms at age 10 y. Cross-lagged models confirmed a unidirectional relation from ADHD symptoms to diet quality but not vice versa. Associations did not differ by overweight status or between boys and girls.
Conclusion: Our study suggests that children with more ADHD symptoms may be at higher risk of an unhealthy diet but that overall diet quality does not affect ADHD risk.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxy273 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Multimodality model investigating the impact of brain atlases, connectivity measures, and dimensionality reduction techniques on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder diagnosis using resting state functional connectivity.
J Med Imaging (Bellingham)
November 2024
The NorthCap University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
Purpose: Various brain atlases are available to parcellate and analyze brain connections. Most traditional machine learning and deep learning studies analyzing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have used either one or two brain atlases for their analysis. However, there is a lack of comprehensive research evaluating the impact of different brain atlases and associated factors such as connectivity measures and dimension reduction techniques on ADHD diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIdentifying neural markers of clinical symptom fluctuations is prerequisite to developing more precise brain-targeted treatments in psychiatry. We have recently shown that working memory (WM) in healthy adults is dependent on the rise and fall interplay between alpha/beta and gamma bursts within frontoparietal regions, and that deviations in these patterns lead to WM performance errors. However, it is not known whether such bursting deviations underlie clinically relevant WM-related symptoms or clinical status in individuals with WM deficits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on prefrontal cortical activation in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.
Front Neurol
December 2024
Department of Rehabilitation, Kunming Children's Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. With the continuous development of neuromodulation technology, Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) has emerged as a potential non-invasive treatment for ADHD. However, there is a lack of research on the mechanism of rTMS for ADHD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical, neuroimaging and genomics evidence have increasingly underscored a degree of overlap between autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This study explores the specific contribution of their core symptoms to shared biology in a sample of N=166 verbal children (6-12 years) with rigorously-established primary diagnoses of either autism or ADHD (without autism). We investigated the associations between inter-individual differences in clinician-based dimensional measures of autism and ADHD symptoms and whole-brain low motion intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAttention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in pilots is considered a threat to flight safety. The U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!