Children with ADHD Symptoms Have a Higher Risk for Reading, Spelling and Math Difficulties in the GINIplus and LISAplus Cohort Studies

Darina Czamara; Carla M.T. Tiesler; Gabriele Kohlböck; Dietrich Berdel; Barbara Hoffmann; Carl Peter Bauer; Sibylle Koletzko; Beate Schaaf; Irina Lehmann; Olf Herbarth; Andrea von Berg; Bertram Müller-Myhsok; Gerd Schulte-Körne; Joachim Heinrich

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063859

Children with ADHD Symptoms Have a Higher Risk for Reading, Spelling and Math Difficulties in the GINIplus and LISAplus Cohort Studies

Darina Czamara
, Carla M.T. Tiesler
, Gabriele Kohlböck
, Dietrich Berdel
, Barbara Hoffmann
, Carl Peter Bauer
, Sibylle Koletzko
, Beate Schaaf
, Irina Lehmann
, Olf Herbarth
, Andrea von Berg
, Bertram Müller-Myhsok
, Gerd Schulte-Körne
, Joachim Heinrich

Technical University of Munich

Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy)
Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Marien-Hospital Wesel
Heinrich-Heine-University
Medical Practice for Pediatrics
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
University of Leipzig
University of Munich

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Abstract

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia belong to the most common neuro-behavioral childhood disorders with prevalences of around 5% in school-aged children. It is estimated that 20-60% of individuals affected with ADHD also present with learning disorders. We investigated the comorbidity between ADHD symptoms and reading/spelling and math difficulties in two on-going population-based birth cohort studies. Children with ADHD symptoms were at significantly higher risk of also showing reading/spelling difficulties or disorder (Odds Ratio (OR) = 2.80, p = 6.59×10^-13) as compared to children without ADHD symptoms. For math difficulties the association was similar (OR = 2.55, p = 3.63×10^-04). Our results strengthen the hypothesis that ADHD and learning disorders are comorbid and share, at least partially, the same underlying process. Up to date, it is not clear, on which exact functional processes this comorbidity is based.

Original language	English
Article number	e63859
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	8
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063859
State	Published - 27 May 2013

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Czamara, D., Tiesler, C. M. T., Kohlböck, G., Berdel, D., Hoffmann, B., Bauer, C. P., Koletzko, S., Schaaf, B., Lehmann, I., Herbarth, O., von Berg, A., Müller-Myhsok, B., Schulte-Körne, G., & Heinrich, J. (2013). Children with ADHD Symptoms Have a Higher Risk for Reading, Spelling and Math Difficulties in the GINIplus and LISAplus Cohort Studies. PLoS ONE, 8(5), Article e63859. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063859

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