You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Prognosis
Review: childhood ADHD does not appear to predict development of bipolar disorder among children of bipolar parents

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/eb-2013-101262

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Question

    Question: Is there an association between childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and development of bipolar disorder among children of parents with confirmed bipolar disorder?

    Outcomes: Diagnostic and statistical manual diagnoses. The main outcomes of interest were ADHD and bipolar disorder.

    Methods

    Design: Systematic review.

    Data sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsychINFO were searched from 1985. Reference lists of included studies were hand searched.

    Study selection and analysis: Published prospective cohort studies. Studies were included if they investigated children of parents with confirmed bipolar disorder and reported rates of psychopathology among the children. Qualitative analysis was performed focusing on ADHD and the association with bipolar disorder among children considered at high risk of developing bipolar disorder.

    Main results

    Nine studies met inclusion criteria. Of these, two studies (Nurnberger et al and Zahn-Walker et al) were not …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Sources of funding: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

    • ▸ The table is published online only. To view please visit the journal online http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/eb-2013-101262

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests GAC currently receives research funding from NIMH, Glaxo Smith Kline, Bristol Myers Squibb, Pfizer and Merck.