Table 1.

Characteristics at baseline and ADHD medication and criminal convictions during follow-up among patients in the Swedish Patient Register diagnosed with ADHD born 1990 or earlier.

	Men	Women
N	16,087	9,569
Person years at risk	62,637	37,963
Characteristics at baseline
Age distribution
15-24 (%)	54.3%	46.3%
25-39 (%)	30.0%	35.4%
40 or older (%)	15.7%	18.3%
Civil status
% Unmarried	85.7%	73.4%
% Married	7.5%	13.1%
% Divorced	6.7%	13.2%
% Widowed	0.1%	0.4%
% living in an metropolitan area	14.8%	15.1%
% in employment	24.3%	25.6%
% studying	29.2%	29.5%
Median family income in $ US	27 500	26 500
Other psychotropic medications
% antipsychotics	11.9%	13.1%
% hypnotics/anxiolytics	27.3%	39.1%
% antidepressants	28.7%	45.1%
% drugs used in addictive disorders	4.6%	3.1%
% Mood stabilizers/anti-epileptics	8.2 %	11.1 %
ADHD medication and criminal convictions during follow-up
% ADHD medication	53.6%	62.7%
% Convicted for any crime	36.6%	15.4%
% Less severe crimes§	34.4%	15.0%
% Violent and sexual crime	14.7%	3.6%
- homicide	0.13%	0.04%
- assault	9.3%	2.0%
- threat/harassment	6.3%	1.1%
- threat/assult directed to a public servant	3.2%	1.1%
- robbery	1.6%	0.0%
- arson	0.2%	0.1%
- sexual crimes	0.7%	0.0%
% substance-related crime	20.5%	7.9%
- drug offenses	17.7%	7.2%
- driving under influence	9.4%	2.5%

^§Defined as non-custodial convictions, i.e. not involving imprisonment, forensic psychiatric inpatient care or closed institutional youth care.