Figure.
Parent-reported current attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and ADHD medication treatment among US children, by age and sex, National Survey of Children’s Health, 2007–2008.
| Age, y | Boys |
Girls |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current ADHD, Unmedicated, % | Current ADHD, Medicated, % | Current ADHD, Unmedicated, % | Current ADHD, Medicated, % | |
| 4 |
1.20 |
0.48 |
0.36 |
0.06 |
| 5 |
1.59 |
1.13 |
0.56 |
0.41 |
| 6 |
2.49 |
2.63 |
0.38 |
1.45 |
| 7 |
2.14 |
6.44 |
1.16 |
1.01 |
| 8 |
3.57 |
6.83 |
1.42 |
2.52 |
| 9 |
3.33 |
12.34 |
1.69 |
3.77 |
| 10 |
2.99 |
9.04 |
2.12 |
2.78 |
| 11 |
3.58 |
11.05 |
1.20 |
3.28 |
| 12 |
2.78 |
8.98 |
1.06 |
2.88 |
| 13 |
3.28 |
10.68 |
1.75 |
2.83 |
| 14 |
4.21 |
7.31 |
0.80 |
3.57 |
| 15 |
5.15 |
8.06 |
1.90 |
3.19 |
| 16 |
5.28 |
7.26 |
3.96 |
2.92 |
| 17 | 5.37 | 5.38 | 2.55 | 4.15 |