A study by researchers at Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minn., and published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, reveals that children who have been under anesthesia many times when they are young have a greater risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). According to David Warner, M.D, a Mayo Clinic pediatric anesthesiologist, and researchers of this study, kids who have been exposed to anesthesia more than twice before the age of 3 are twice as likely to have ADHD than children who have not been exposed.
Warner and team began the study after other research suggested that anesthesia alters the brain of young animals. He said:
"Those studies piqued our interest. We were skeptical that the findings in animals would correlate with kids, but it appears that it does."
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