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The class recent have a higher risk for ADHD and depression

In sports it is probably the most likely: The most recent, and usually the smallest children in the age group tend to have trouble with the older to compete. The date of birth determines how easy or hard is it for a child it is to achieve in the classroom the best services. Studies show that this is true only in sports but also in other subjects, with The youngest in the class does not cut so well as the Older.

And in addition, various studies show that the risk is linked to certain diseases apparently with the relative age in the classroom. After all, the children come together in a School, their ages may be a year or more apart – in the first years of life, this can mean a huge difference.

A Team of researchers and a researcher in the UK reported that learning disorders, ADHD, and depression occur more frequently in children, the count in the classroom to the younger.

For the in the journal “Jama Pediatrics” published a study, the group of data evaluated of well of a Million children in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where by the way not the same dates for the school enrollment age.

The Team of Jeremy Brown of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine divided the children in four groups – from the Oldest in the class up to the most Recent. Then it determined how many children and young people before the age of 16. The age of the diagnosis of learning received disorders, ADHD, or Depression.

The Results:

  • While the youngest children 236 out of 10,000 got a ADHD diagnosis, were among the oldest 174 of 10,000.
  • In the most recent group was diagnosed in 104 out of 10,000 children have a learning disorder, when the oldest was 81 out of 10,000 of the case.
  • The diagnosis of Depression received 109 out of 10,000 of the youngest children, 83 out of 10,000 of the oldest children.

The study itself can provide no answers as to why the younger children are more frequently affected than the older. The research team, however, some guesses: Because it’s missing the younger children in a class in comparison to the older more Mature, it could be that you frequently receive an ADHD diagnosis, even though you are not suffering from the syndrome. However, it would also be possible that there are undetected among the oldest children in the class frequently not diagnosed ADHD cases out there.

That depression is also more common among the class of most recent occurrence is from the point of view of the research group with the school performance, related to the relative age in the class. Because already it was known that students who get bad grades, have a higher risk of developing Depression.

A simple solution, such as the increased disease risk for the most Recent lower, the scientists, unfortunately, not of Europe. If one moves the cut-off date for Enrolment will only be other children the youngest. One possibility would be to test before Enrollment, whether the child is Mature enough, or better still a year to wait, say the researchers.