Sara Carucci, Alessandro Zuddas, Angelico Lampis, Kenneth K C Man, Carla Balia, Jan Buitelaar, Marina Danckaerts, Ralf W Dittmann, Federica Donno, Bruno Falissard, Antonella Gagliano, Peter Garas, Alexander Häge, Chris Hollis, Sarah K Inglis, Kerstin Konrad, Hanna Kovshoff, Elizabeth Liddle, Suzanne McCarthy, Antje Neubert, Peter Nagy, Eric Rosenthal, Edmund J S Sonuga-Barke, Ian C K Wong, Tobias Banaschewski, David Coghill
OBJECTIVE: The short-term safety of methylphenidate (MPH) has been widely demonstrated; however the long-term safety is less clear. The aim of this study was to investigate the safety of MPH in relation to pubertal maturation and to explore the monitoring of bone age. METHOD: Participants from ADDUCE, a two-year observational longitudinal study with three parallel cohorts (MPH group, no-MPH group, and a non-ADHD control group), were compared with respect to Tanner staging...
February 17, 2024: Journal of Attention Disorders