Study Links TV Viewing and ADHD

04/15/2004

Study Links TV Viewing and ADHD

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STUDY LINKS TV VIEWING AND ADHD

The current issue of Pediatrics (April, 2004; http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/) reports on a study finding that early television exposure is associated with attentional problems at age 7. The researchers surveyed data on 1278 children at age 1 and 1345 children at age 3. Ten percent of these children had attentional problems at age 7. A significant predictor of ADHD was hours of television viewed per day at both ages 1 and 3.

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