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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a risk factor for infection with COVID-19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Abstract

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Introduction

ADHD limits the ability to comply with Covid-19 prevention recommendations. We hypothesized that ADHD constitutes a risk factor for Covid-19 infection and that pharmacotherapy may lower that risk.

Objectives

To test our hypothesis we studied the data of all patients admitted to (N=14,022) Leumit Health Services in Israel between February 1st - April 30th, 2020, who underwent at least one Covid-19 test.

Methods

Data were collected from the electronic health records. Purchasing consecutively at least 3 ADHD-medication-prescriptions during past year was considered drug-treatment.

Results

1,416 (10.1%) subjects (aged 2 months - 103 years) were Covid-19-positive.They were significantly younger, and had higher rates of ADHD (adjOR 1.58 (95%CI; 1.27-1.96, p<0·001) than Covid-19-negative subjects. The risk for Covid-19-Positive was higher in untreated-ADHD subjects compared to non-ADHD subjects [crudeOR 1.61 (95%CI 1.36-1.89, p<0.001)], while no higher risk was detected in treated ones [crudeOR 1.07 (95% CI 0·78-1.48 p=0.65)].

Conclusions

Untreated ADHD seems to constitute a risk factor for Covid-19 infection while drug-treatment ameliorates this effect.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

ADHDAdultriskCOVID-19
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S104
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