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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 26.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2006 Apr;163(4):716–723. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.163.4.716

Table 3.

Twelve-month comorbidities of Adult ADHD with other DSM-IV disorders (n=3199)1

Conditional prevalence of…
ADHD among respondents…
other disorders among
Respondents…
with other
disorders
without other
disorders
with ADHD
without
ADHD
% (se) % (se) % (se) % (se) OR2 (95%CI)2
I. Mood Disorders
       Major depressive disorder 9.4 2.3 3.7 0.5 18.6 4.2 7.8 0.4 2.7* (1.5–4.9)
       Dysthymia 22.6 5.8 3.7 0.5 12.8 3.4 1.9 0.2 7.5* (3.8–15.0)
       Bipolar disorder 21.2 3.9 3.5 0.5 19.4 3.8 3.1 0.3 7.4* (4.6–12.0)
       Any mood disorder 13.1 2.3 2.9 0.5 38.3 5.5 11.1 0.6 5.0* (3.0–8.2)
II. Anxiety Disorders
       Generalized anxiety disorder 11.9 3.9 4.0 0.5 8.0 2.5 2.6 0.3 3.2* (1.5–6.9)
       Post-traumatic stress disorder 13.4 3.4 3.8 0.5 11.9 3.0 3.3 0.4 3.9* (2.1–7.3)
       Panic disorder 11.1 3.0 3.9 0.5 8.9 2.5 3.1 0.3 3.0* (1.6–5.9)
       Agoraphobia 19.1 9.0 4.0 0.5 4.0 2.0 0.7 0.1 5.5* (1.6–18.5)
       Specific phobia 9.4 1.9 3.6 0.5 22.7 4.2 9.5 0.6 2.8* (1.7–4.6)
       Social phobia 14.0 2.5 3.2 0.5 29.3 4.3 7.8 0.5 4.9* (3.1–7.6)
       Obsessive-compulsive disorder 6.5 5.2 4.2 0.5 2.7 2.0 1.3 0.4 1.5 (0.2–9.4)
       Any anxiety disorder 9.5 1.4 2.8 0.5 47.1 5.0 19.5 0.7 3.7* (2.4–5.5)
III. Substance Disorders
       Alcohol abuse 9.5 4.2 4.0 0.5 5.9 2.5 2.4 0.2 2.5 (0.9–6.6)
       Alcohol dependence 11.1 5.9 4.0 0.5 5.8 2.9 2.0 0.4 2.8 (0.8–9.8)
       Drug abuse 7.2 6.6 4.1 0.5 2.4 2.3 1.4 0.2 1.5 (0.2–10.5)
       Drug dependence 25.4 11.7 4.0 0.5 4.4 2.3 0.6 0.1 7.9* (2.3–27.3)
       Any substance disorder 10.8 3.6 3.8 0.5 15.2 4.8 5.6 0.6 3.0* (1.4–6.5)
IV. Impulse-Control Disorders
       Intermittent explosive disorder 12.3 2.5 3.6 0.5 19.6 3.8 6.1 0.5 3.7* (2.2–6.2)

*

Significant at the .05 level, two-sided design-based MI tests.

1

Part II respondents ages 18–44

2

Based on multivariate logistic regression analysis controlling for age using MI to estimate odds-ratios (OR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (95% CI)

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