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Overweight & Obesity in ADHD Children By Cody Hawk & Jake Gieselman

Overweight & Obesity in ADHD Children By Cody Hawk & Jake Gieselman. Today’s obese children will become tomorrow’s obese adults. Over the last three decades childhood obesity has increased 30 percent. Potential health problems and health care cost for the future

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Overweight & Obesity in ADHD Children By Cody Hawk & Jake Gieselman

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  1. Overweight & Obesity in ADHD ChildrenBy Cody Hawk & Jake Gieselman

  2. Today’s obese children will become tomorrow’s obese adults. Over the last three decades childhood obesity has increased 30 percent. Potential health problems and health care cost for the future Heart Disease is the number one killer among men and women in the U.S. Why We choose this clinical population?

  3. ADHD German boys Age: 5.5-14.7 years old 97 boys sampled for a three year period BMI % Methylphenidate medication What Are the Characteristics of the Study?

  4. “The prevalence of overweight and obesity is lower in a population of boys with ADHD than in the normal German population of boys in the same age”. Hypothesis was based off of previous studies What Was the Hypothesis?

  5. 14 patients received methylphenidate medication Height measured by stadiometry How was the Hypothesis Tested?

  6. No significant differences in the relative number of overweight and obese ADHD subjects Slight to no difference in subjects that received the drug methylphenidate Examined their study with psychiatric conditions What were the results of the Study?

  7. Graph and Table

  8. Exercise prescription

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