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The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling
This narrative review is aimed at presenting the most recent evidence on the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obesity. The review is informed by previous relevant systematic reviews and a search in Pubmed and PsycINFO up to 1 August 2019. Although the associati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31569608 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9100256 |
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description | This narrative review is aimed at presenting the most recent evidence on the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obesity. The review is informed by previous relevant systematic reviews and a search in Pubmed and PsycINFO up to 1 August 2019. Although the association between ADHD and obesity would seem, at first, paradoxical, in the past two decades there has been an increasing number of studies on this topic. The present review shows that there is meta-analytic evidence supporting a significant association between these two conditions, at least in adults. Growing evidence is also being published on the genetic and environmental factors underlying the association. However, the cause–effects paths, as well as the exact mechanisms explaining the association, remain unclear. Additionally, empirical evidence guiding the management/treatment of patients with the two conditions is still limited. Therefore, after almost 20 years from the first report of a link between ADHD and obesity, this association continues to be puzzling. |
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spelling | pubmed-68269812019-11-18 The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling Cortese, Samuele Brain Sci Perspective This narrative review is aimed at presenting the most recent evidence on the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obesity. The review is informed by previous relevant systematic reviews and a search in Pubmed and PsycINFO up to 1 August 2019. Although the association between ADHD and obesity would seem, at first, paradoxical, in the past two decades there has been an increasing number of studies on this topic. The present review shows that there is meta-analytic evidence supporting a significant association between these two conditions, at least in adults. Growing evidence is also being published on the genetic and environmental factors underlying the association. However, the cause–effects paths, as well as the exact mechanisms explaining the association, remain unclear. Additionally, empirical evidence guiding the management/treatment of patients with the two conditions is still limited. Therefore, after almost 20 years from the first report of a link between ADHD and obesity, this association continues to be puzzling. MDPI 2019-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6826981/ /pubmed/31569608 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9100256 Text en © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Cortese, Samuele The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling |
title | The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling |
title_full | The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling |
title_fullStr | The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling |
title_full_unstemmed | The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling |
title_short | The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling |
title_sort | association between adhd and obesity: intriguing, progressively more investigated, but still puzzling |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31569608 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9100256 |
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