Anxiety and ADHD in Patients With Single-Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease

 ADHD in the News 2017-02-23


In a cross-sectional study recently published in Pediatrics, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts found that adolescents with single-ventricle congenital heart disease (CHD) have a fivefold increase in rates of anxiety disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared with healthy control patients.