4: 8-year-old male well-child check Flashcards
BMI
weight (in kg) divided by height (in meters) squared.
Weight/Height age
Age at which the patient’s weight/height would plot at the 50th percentile.
core symptoms of ADHD are:
- Inattention
- Hyperactivity
- Impulsivity
Prevalence of ADHD
U.S.: 8-10%, making ADHD the most common neurobehavioral disorder of childhood and among the most common chronic health conditions in school-aged children.
ADHD Diagnosis
based on a set of characteristic clinical findings.
Important Causes of School Failure: Sensory impairment
- Hearing and vision impairment in particular, may mimic inattention.
- Newborns are universally screened for hearing in maternity hospitals as part of their newborn care.
- Vision and hearing should be screened subjectively (i.e., by history) in infants and toddlers.
- Objective vision screening should be part of health maintenance visits beginning at 3 years old.
- Objective hearing screening should be performed on all newborns and should be resumed at the 4-year-old health maintenance visit.
Important Causes of School Failure: sleep disorder
- This may be due to a formal sleep disorde r (e.g., obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy) or simply poor bedtime routines in the home (poor “sleep hygiene”).
- Patients with ADHD often have poor sleep hygiene, but typically do not seem overtired.
Important Causes of School Failure: Mood Disorder
- Prevalence of mood disorders increases with age.
- Depression affects an estimated 1-2% of elementary school age children and 5% of adolescents.
- Childhood depression is marked by a high rate of conversion to bipolar disorders.
- Children with ADHD also have a higher rate of mood disorders than control populations
- Mood disorders may mimic OR accompany ADHD.
Important Causes of School Failure: Learning disability
- Most states require documentation of a discrepancy between IQ (in the normal range) and academic achievement for the diagnosis of a learning disability.
- Learning disabilities clearly impair academic performance, but may also lead to behavioral and attention problems, particularly at school.
- Comorbidity between LD and ADHD is common; many experts feel that one diagnosis should not be made without evaluating for the other.
Important Causes of School Failure: Conduct
- Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is characterized by a pattern of negativistic, hostile and defiant behavior.
- Conduct disorder (CD) is a more severe disorder of habitual rule-breaking, characterized by a pattern of aggression, destruction, lying, stealing and/or truancy.
- -ODD/CD is the psychiatric condition with the highest comorbidity rates with ADHD.
“Red Flags” for Risk of Learning Disability
- -History of maternal illness or substance abuse during pregnancy
- -Complications at the time of delivery
- -History of meningitis or other serious illness
- -History of serious head trauma
- -Parental h/o learning disabilities or difficulty at school
Response to ADHD Medication
Eighty percent of children with ADHD respond to stimulant medications such as sustained-release methylphenidate.
Adverse Effects of ADHD Medications
- appetite suppression
- insomnia
- decrease in growth velocity
Epidemiology of Obesity
- The prevalence of childhood obesity has doubled in the past 20 years in the U.S.
- Currently, approximately 15% of 6- to 19-year-olds are at or above the 95th percentile for BMI on standard growth charts, with even higher rates among certain minority populations.
- The probability of childhood obesity persisting into adulthood increases from 20% at age four to 80% by adolescence.
- Multiple factors besides diet and activity level can contribute to obesity, including genetic and environmental RF.
Prenatal/neonatal risk factors for obesity include
high birth weight and maternal diabetes.