Study finds surprising correlation between states’ elevation and ADHD prevalence

By Dr. David Rabiner | September 8, 2020 |

Who would have thought that chil­dren liv­ing at high­er alti­tudes have low­er risk of devel­op­ing ADHD than peers at low­er ele­va­tion lev­els? As the research described below sug­gests, how­ev­er, this may be the case. The impe­tus for this study is the well-doc­u­­men­t­ed region­al vari­a­tion in the preva­lence of ADHD in youth. For exam­ple, nation­al data for…

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