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Is ADHD on the rise? No – but that answer doesn’t tell the whole story

There are concerns about the diagnosis of more children with hyperactivity disorder and attention
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Is hyperactivity disorder and lack of attention when children rise? The evaluation of thousands of studies issued since 2020, and is surprising, indicates that the answer is – but researchers behind the work have expressed their frustration with the quality of the poor available data, which means that the true image remains mysterious.
“The best data we suggest is that there was no significant increase in the spread of hyperactivity disorder and lack of attention,” he says. Alex Martin In King’s College London, but this hides a bigger problem, she says. “Most research is very biased to …