Stimulants and growth in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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Stimulants and growth in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Initial suggestions that suppression of growth may be an intrinsic characteristic of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have now largely been disproven. Although controversy persists regarding the possible negative effect of adrenergic stimulants on growth in children with ADHD, the consensus that appears to be reached in the scientific literature is that stimulant usage may cause ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Hypotheses
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0306-9877
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.03.015