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Time perception deficits in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbid reading difficulties in child and adolescent samples
Objective: To investigate time perception in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with
and without comorbid reading difficulties (RD) in child and adolescent participants. Method: In
study 1, 50 children with ADHD (31 ADHD, 19 ADHD+RD) and age-matched healthy controls
(n=50), completed three psychophysical tasks: duration discrimination (target duration of 400 ms
versus a foil duration), frequency discrimination (a control condition to evaluate general perceptual
ability), and a duration estimation task using the method of reproduction for intervals of 400 ms,
2000 ms, and 6000 ms. Study 2 used the same tasks with an adolescent sample (35 ADHD, 24
ADHD+RD, 39 controls). Results: In both studies, children and adolescents with ADHD and
ADHD+RD displayed some impairments in duration discrimination and the precision with which
they reproduced the intervals on the estimation task, particularly the shorter 400 ms interval. The
most severe impairments tended to occur in the comorbid ADHD+RD group. No impairments were
found on the frequency discrimination task. ADHD participants also displayed significant intraindividual
variability in their performance on the estimation task. Finally, working memory,
estimated full-scale IQ, and teacher report of hyperactivity/impulsivity were found to differentially
predict performance on the time perception measures in the adolescent clinical sample.
Conclusions: Deficits in duration discrimination, duration estimation, and intra-individual
performance variability may have cascaded effects on the temporal organization of behaviour in
children and adolescents with ADHD and ADHD+R
Towards a better understanding of adolescent risk taking: Contextual moderators and model-based analysis
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Interrelated aldosterone and parathyroid hormone mutually modify cardiovascular mortality risk
BACKGROUND: Inappropriate aldosterone and parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Accumulating evidence suggests bidirectional interplay between aldosterone and PTH. METHODS: We evaluated the cross-sectional relationship between plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC), aldosterone to renin ratio (ARR) and PTH and subsequently tested whether the interaction between PAC and PTH modified the risk of cardiovascular death. PAC [78.0 (48.0-123.0) pg/mL], ARR [6.4 (2.9-12.9) pg/mL/pg/mL] and PTH concentration [median: 29.0 (22.0-40.0) pg/mL] were measured in 3074 patients (mean age: 62.5 ± 10.6 years; 30.3% women) referred to coronary angiography in a tertiary care center in Southwest Germany. RESULTS: Using multiple linear regression analysis, PAC and ARR emerged as an independent predictor of higher PTH concentrations (β=0.12 and 0.21, P<0.001 for both) irrespective of intake of antihypertensive treatment, 25(OH)D, kidney function, serum calcium, phosphate, magnesium, cortisol, NT-pro-BNP, soluble α-klotho and FGF-23 concentration. After a median follow-up of 9.9 years, 512 (16.7%) participants had died due to fatal cardiovascular events. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis revealed that both PAC and PTH were independently associated with cardiovascular mortality, with a potential synergistic interaction (P=0.028). PAC and PTH are exclusively associated with cardiovascular death in subjects with PTH and PAC concentrations above the median, respectively (PAC: HR per log SD: 1.14; 95% CI 1.02-1.29; P=0.026; PTH: HR per log SD: 1.18; 95% CI 1.02-1.37; P=0.031). CONCLUSIONS: Higher PAC and ARR were independently associated with PTH. PAC was independently related to incident cardiovascular mortality exclusively in patients with elevated PTH and vice versa
Warum können Patientinnen mit Anorexia nervosa depressiv und trotzdem leistungsfähig sein? Die mögliche Bedeutung von emotionaler Suppression im Rahmen eines leistungsbetonten Experiments
BACKGROUND: Inappropriate aldosterone and parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Accumulating evidence suggests bidirectional interplay between aldosterone and PTH. METHODS: We evaluated the cross-sectional relationship between plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC), aldosterone to renin ratio (ARR) and PTH and subsequently tested whether the interaction between PAC and PTH modified the risk of cardiovascular death. PAC [78.0 (48.0-123.0) pg/mL], ARR [6.4 (2.9-12.9) pg/mL/pg/mL] and PTH concentration [median: 29.0 (22.0-40.0) pg/mL] were measured in 3074 patients (mean age: 62.5 ± 10.6 years; 30.3% women) referred to coronary angiography in a tertiary care center in Southwest Germany. RESULTS: Using multiple linear regression analysis, PAC and ARR emerged as an independent predictor of higher PTH concentrations (β=0.12 and 0.21, P<0.001 for both) irrespective of intake of antihypertensive treatment, 25(OH)D, kidney function, serum calcium, phosphate, magnesium, cortisol, NT-pro-BNP, soluble α-klotho and FGF-23 concentration. After a median follow-up of 9.9 years, 512 (16.7%) participants had died due to fatal cardiovascular events. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis revealed that both PAC and PTH were independently associated with cardiovascular mortality, with a potential synergistic interaction (P=0.028). PAC and PTH are exclusively associated with cardiovascular death in subjects with PTH and PAC concentrations above the median, respectively (PAC: HR per log SD: 1.14; 95% CI 1.02-1.29; P=0.026; PTH: HR per log SD: 1.18; 95% CI 1.02-1.37; P=0.031). CONCLUSIONS: Higher PAC and ARR were independently associated with PTH. PAC was independently related to incident cardiovascular mortality exclusively in patients with elevated PTH and vice versa