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Exeter researchers link poverty with child ADHD

Scientists at Exeter University's medical school have found a link between low incomes and the incidence of child attention deficit disorder.


They analysed data on more than 19 and a half thousand children born between 2000 and 2002, looking at their lives at regular intervals between the ages of nine months and 11 years.

The findings showed that more children with ADHD came from families living below the poverty line - and parents living in social housing were three times more likely to have a child with the condition than those who owned their homes.

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