Study suggests profile of people diagnosed with ADHD and autism has changed over the past decade

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Add as preferred source Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and Aarhus University shows that children and adolescents diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Denmark today share more characteristics with their peers in the general population than those diagnosed a decade ago.

The findings suggest that the rise in diagnoses observed over the past decade may reflect, at least in part, changes in the characteristics of the people receiving these diagnoses, in addition to possible changes in the underlying risk of developing these conditions.

The study has been published in JAMA Psychiatry .