A child with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has a greater chance of being hit by a car while walking about in the streets compared to other children without any developmental disability, researchers reported in the medical journal Pediatrics. Quite simply because they become easily distracted, the authors wrote. Despina Stavrinos, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and team studied 78 kids between 7 and 10 years of age. They all had ADHD. They were compared to 39 children with normal development. 71% of them were boys
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