Sara Becker
Manu J. Sharma1,2
Brandy L. Callahan- 1Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- 2Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
In this review, we undertake a critical appraisal of eight published studies providing first evidence that a history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may increase risk for the later-life development of a neurodegenerative disease, in particular Lewy body diseases (LBD), by up to five-fold. Most of these studies have used data linked to health records in large population registers and include impressive sample sizes and adequate follow-up periods. We identify a number of methodological limitations as well, including potential diagnostic inaccuracies arising from the use of electronic health records, biases in the measurement of ADHD status and symptoms, and concerns surrounding the representativeness of ADHD and LBD cohorts. Consequently, previously reported risk associations may have been underestimated due to the high likelihood of potentially missed ADHD cases in groups used as “controls”, or alternatively previous estimates may be inflated due to the inclusion of confounding comorbidities or non-ADHD cases within “exposed” groups that may have better accounted for dementia risk. Prospective longitudinal studies involving well-characterized cases and controls are recommended to provide some reassurance about the validity of neurodegenerative risk estimates in ADHD.
Introduction
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a psychiatric disorder beginning in childhood that is characterized by core symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity (Biederman and Faraone, 2005; American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Faraone et al., 2015). Diagnostic criteria require symptoms to present in early childhood, before age 12, and cause impairment in daily activities in more than one setting (e.g., home, school, social environment, and/or interpersonal relationships; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Although it is largely considered a childhood disorder, 40–60% of cases of ADHD persist into adulthood (Culpepper and Mattingly, 2010; Michielsen et al., 2012; Volkow and Swanson, 2013; Asherson et al., 2016), and the overall prevalence of adult ADHD ranges from 2 to 4% (Kieling and Rohde, 2012; Fayyad et al., 2017).
ADHD may persist into later life as well. Roughly 3% of adults over age 50 suffer from significant symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; Michielsen et al., 2012; Kooij et al., 2016), often presenting as executive dysfunction (e.g., absent-mindedness) and memory impairments (e.g., forgetfulness or difficulty learning new things; Rosler et al., 2010; Thorell et al., 2017; Callahan et al., 2021). These symptoms overlap with those of early neurodegenerative disease (Ivanchak et al., 2012; Pollack, 2012; Goodman et al., 2016; Callahan et al., 2017), and it is currently unclear whether ADHD is associated with an increased neurodegenerative risk, or if it is being misdiagnosed due to symptom overlap (Callahan et al., 2017). Clarifying this issue is crucial to reduce dementia misdiagnoses, and to guide treatment, which will differ depending on whether the disease course is assumed to be neurodegenerative or not.
Some data have suggested a link between ADHD and neurodegenerative disease, which appears to be specific to Lewy body diseases (LBD; Baumeister, 2021). Lewy body diseases refer inclusively to Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s disease dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies, which are assumed to be different phenotypic expressions of underlying α-synuclein pathology (Gomperts, 2016). All three share clinical and neuropathological findings, including motor symptomatology (i.e., parkinsonism), progressive executive dysfunction, and non-motor symptoms such as autonomic dysfunction, sleep behavior disorders, hallucinations, and olfactory dysfunction (Aarsland, 2016; Sezgin et al., 2019). Motor abnormalities (Goulardins et al., 2017), executive dysfunction (Barkley, 1997), and disordered sleep (Konofal et al., 2010) are also present in ADHD, which has generated research interest in the relationship between these syndromes.
In the last 15 years, eight published studies have suggested that ADHD may be a risk factor for incident neurodegeneration (Walitza et al., 2007; Golimstok et al., 2011; Curtin et al., 2018; Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018; Tzeng et al., 2019; Fan et al., 2020; Du Rietz et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2021; see Table 1). These studies have primarily used data from population registers with linked health information (Curtin et al., 2018; Du Rietz et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2021), healthcare utilization databases (Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018), or health insurance databases (Tzeng et al., 2019), and have reported increased risk for neurodegeneration—particularly LBD—in individuals with antecedent ADHD. Two smaller retrospective case-control studies have similarly reported increased earlier-life ADHD symptoms in individuals with Parkinson’s disease relative to controls (Walitza et al., 2007; Golimstok et al., 2011). Hazard ratios in these studies range from 1.8 to 5.2 and odds ratios range from 1.5 to 5.1 (Table 1), suggesting strongly increased risk of later-life dementia in individuals with antecedent ADHD, even after controlling for potential confounds such as diabetes (Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018) or stimulant medication use (Curtin et al., 2018).
Table 1. Summary of eight studies investigating relationships between antecedent ADHD and later-life neurodegenerative diseases.
A recent review (Baumeister, 2021) summarized findings from five of these eight studies, and thoroughly described alterations in dopaminergic, cognitive, and neural functioning that are common to both ADHD and Parkinson’s disease in an attempt to understand the etiology and pathogenesis of both disorders. Here, we extend this discussion to address three new studies published in 2020 and 2021, and take a more critical perspective in appraising this literature. We argue that the evidence presented in these eight studies deserves very careful consideration, because its corollary is that ADHD may represent a preclinical or risk stage of neurodegeneration during which important decision-making and early intervention may be possible.
Critical Appraisal of Methodological Approaches
Electronic Health Records
The use of health administrative data enables population-level analyses, improves generalizability of results, and minimizes referral bias (Benchimol et al., 2011). The systematic collection of data over time is particularly beneficial for studying both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. However, there are limitations in using such data, including misclassifications and coding or data entry errors, as well as changes in both diagnostic criteria and coding systems over time (Mazzali et al., 2016).
In four studies (Curtin et al., 2018; Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018; Tzeng et al., 2019; Du Rietz et al., 2021), ADHD participants were identified via health record diagnostic codes from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), and the authors evaluated the risk of subsequent basal ganglia diseases including LBD (Curtin et al., 2018; Du Rietz et al., 2021) or Lewy body or Alzheimer’s dementias (Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018; Tzeng et al., 2019; Du Rietz et al., 2021) associated with these codes. Another study (Zhang et al., 2021) investigated the relationship between familial aggregation of ADHD and dementia using both ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes. Not all studies, however, included consistent or intuitive operationalizations of ADHD (Table 1). For instance, two (Tzeng et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2021) considered inattentive, hyperactive, and combined ADHD presentations (codes 314.00-01), while another (Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018) only considered hyperactivity presentations (314.01). Thus, ADHD cases presenting without hyperactivity—which represent between 20% (Salvi et al., 2019) and 40% (Gibbins et al., 2010) of adult cases—were not captured in the Fluegge and Fluegge (2018) study, suggesting the sample was an incomplete representation of ADHD. In contrast, two other studies (Curtin et al., 2018; Du Rietz et al., 2021) included hyperkinetic disorders within their ADHD designation (codes 314.0–314.2, 314.8, 314.9), which is problematic because the criteria for these categories are not well defined, and misdiagnoses are common [e.g., hyperkinetic movement disorders may be mistaken for tics or Tourette’s syndrome (Kompliti and Goetz, 1998)]. Hyperkinetic disorders are also characterized by excessive involuntary movements resulting from basal ganglia damage (Wichmann and DeLong, 2010), so their consideration as a risk factor for basal ganglia diseases such as LBD is somewhat tautological.
There is also considerable variability in the disorders encompassed by the diagnostic codes used to define LBD (Table 1). For example, two studies considered “secondary parkinsonism” (Curtin et al., 2018; Du Rietz et al., 2021) among the outcomes of interest, however secondary parkinsonism is not necessarily neurodegenerative (Shin and Chung, 2012) and may have potentially confounded results. The multiple aetiologies present within the outcome samples result in a very heterogenous group of diagnoses that may not be particularly attributed to LBD, and precludes robust conclusions about the specific association between ADHD and neurodegenerative LBD.
There is also considerable worldwide variability in the use of the ICD versions, with some countries implementing “clinical modifications” that modify ICD codes according to country-specific needs, e.g., ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM in the US, or ICD-10-CA in Canada (Otero Varela et al., 2021). These modifications can either include more detailed coding to characterize a patient’s state (generating more individual codes than the original version) or be used to simplify the index terms of the ICD. Overall, this leads to variability in the number of codes and categories, as well as definitions in each modified ICD (Jetté et al., 2010), which compromises comparability of data between countries.
The extent to which ICD codes actually correspond to the presence of a disease or disorder has been examined in multiple studies of ADHD (e.g., O’Malley et al., 2005; Daley et al., 2017) and neurogenerative diseases (Wermuth et al., 2012; Muzerengi et al., 2017; Wilkinson et al., 2018; Harding et al., 2019), and misdiagnosis rates as high as 80% have been reported (O’Malley et al., 2005). A systematic review found that healthcare data had low sensitivity (<50%) for identifying all types of dementia (Wilkinson et al., 2018). The diagnosis of AD or LBD relies heavily on complex clinical criteria (McKhann et al., 2011; McKeith et al., 2017) which makes them more difficult to code than conditions where specific diagnostic tests can confirm the diagnosis [e.g., diabetes (St. Germaine-Smith et al., 2012)]. An examination of ICD codes in the Danish National Hospital Register (Wermuth et al., 2012) found that 18% of patients coded as having idiopathic Parkinson’s disease did not meet consensus criteria upon careful review of clinical features. Especially in Parkinson’s disease, misdiagnoses are common (Feldman et al., 2012; Harding et al., 2019), calling into question the use of different clinical standards across different health registries and individual health centers. A previous study examining the accuracy of ICD-9-CM codes in identifying cases of parkinsonism found that using medications listed in pharmacy data was more accurate than using medical records (Swarztrauber et al., 2005), which was also corroborated by a Swedish study (Hjerpe et al., 2010).
Error rates in ICD coding for ADHD may also be high, in part because clinicians seldom actually establish that all ADHD diagnostic criteria are present, even when an ICD code of ADHD is recorded consistently across visits (Daley et al., 2017). At most, only about half of clinicians explicitly quantify ADHD symptoms, and fewer than 15% formally document whether symptoms fall above the clinical threshold (Daley et al., 2017). Further errors can be introduced because ICD codes are generally not assigned by clinicians themselves, but by coders based on clinicians’ notes (O’Malley et al., 2005), and therefore depend on the clarity and consistency of the terminology used in the notes. As such, ICD codes do not always reflect a clear and systematic ascertainment of symptom severity, functional impairment, childhood onset, or ruling out other possible aetiologies. This is rather problematic in the context of examining relationships between ADHD and neurodegeneration, because ADHD-like experiences (inattention, distractibility, impulsivity, and emotional dysregulation) can be neuropsychiatric indicators of neurodegenerative disease onset (Ismail et al., 2018; Bateman et al., 2020), and establishing whether they are due to ADHD or to neurodegeneration is key.
The selection of controls in these studies does not include systematic assessment to rule out ADHD. This is problematic because, especially in adults, ADHD is underdiagnosed (Newcorn et al., 2007; Ginsberg et al., 2014). In one article (Tzeng et al., 2019), ADHD prevalence was 0.07%, whereas worldwide adult prevalence is consistently closer to 3% (Polanczyk et al., 2007; Kooij et al., 2016), suggesting that up to 2.9% of the “non-ADHD” group may in fact have had ADHD, for overall rates to be on par with expected prevalence. A recent study (Chen et al., 2019) using the same Taiwanese National Health Insurance registry identified 275,980 ADHD participants over 12 years (23,000 new cases annually), significantly more than the 675 ADHD cases identified within the 1-year enrolment period in Tzeng et al. (2019), suggesting many missed cases in Tzeng and colleagues’ investigation.
Lastly, it should be noted that two studies in this review used data from either inpatient hospitalization visits (Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018) or a minimum of three outpatient visits (Tzeng et al., 2019), which likely biased the samples towards severe ADHD or patients with chronic illnesses or health comorbidities resulting in increased doctor’s visits. Indeed, three annual outpatient visits is uncommon for adults with ADHD; the mean is closer to one annual visit (Garcia-Argibay et al., 2021). Additional comorbidities leading to multiple hospital visits may account for dementia risk in these studies (Vassilaki et al., 2015), particularly in older adults for whom comorbidities are increased (Chen et al., 2018). Moreover, evaluating ADHD as a predictor of hospitalization for LBD or AD is not equivalent to evaluating it as a predictor of the development of these conditions, especially as ADHD on its own is recognized to be associated with an increased risk of hospitalization (Chien et al., 2017; Lindemann et al., 2017). As such, the methodological approaches used in these studies preclude the authors’ inference that there exists an “association between antecedent ADHD and dementia risk” (Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018).
Definitions of ADHD
In two case-control studies of interest (Walitza et al., 2007; Golimstok et al., 2011), the researchers did not actually diagnose ADHD but rather ascertained symptom frequencies and used cut-off scores to classify participants into “ADHD” and “non-ADHD” groups. Symptom rating scales provide data that must be taken as only one component of a broad clinical assessment (Ramsay, 2017) including a comprehensive clinical history and corroborating reports (Sibley et al., 2012; Sibley, 2021). Further, traits of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity are endorsed by 60% of adults (Das et al., 2012), and their use cannot provide any conclusions about whether clinical ADHD is associated with neurodegenerative disease outcomes. It is also possible that some adults may overreport normal cognitive or behavioral fluctuations as symptoms of ADHD, or experience distractibility or disorganization in the absence of clinically significant impairment, both of which preclude a clinical diagnosis of ADHD (Sibley, 2021).
In quantifying childhood symptoms, neither study considered potential confounding factors that may have accounted for symptomatology. It is crucial to ascertain that inattention/hyperactivity in childhood is truly attributable to ADHD and not to other factors such as traumatic brain injury (Lee et al., 2013) or Asperger syndrome (Tani et al., 2006), for example. Ruling out alternative explanations for symptoms is a key step in ensuring diagnostic accuracy when assessing ADHD in adults (Sibley, 2021), and failure to do so often results in an overestimation of symptoms attributable to ADHD (Sibley et al., 2017). Inquiring about these antecedents is also critical to determine whether they can account for any significant variance in neurodegenerative disease risk. Brain injury, hypertension, physical inactivity, cardiovascular risk factors, and excessive alcohol and tobacco consumption have all been linked to dementia risk (Bergland et al., 2017; Livingston et al., 2020) and many have been shown to be increased in ADHD as well (Callahan et al., 2017). As such, they should be considered potential confounds and should be controlled for in study designs or statistical models.
Representativeness of Patient Samples
In a smaller case control study (Golimstok et al., 2011), participants were identified as positive cases of ADHD if they demonstrated both current and childhood symptoms. As a result, cases of remitted ADHD—generally thought to represent at least 50–60% of ADHD cases (Sibley et al., 2017) —were unaccounted for. It is unclear if or how the dementia and control groups differed in their prevalence of remitted ADHD, but this has important implications for understanding relationships between ADHD in early life and later neurodegenerative disease risk. Notably, prevalence of ADHD in this study was roughly five times higher in the control group (15.1%) relative to expected frequencies of ADHD in the general adult or older adult population (~3%; Michielsen et al., 2012; Kooij et al., 2016), strongly implying faulty recall and/or an unrepresentative sample.
In examining neurodegenerative disease outcomes, some studies included early-onset disease cases (Walitza et al., 2007; Curtin et al., 2018). This may introduce bias, because specific genetic mutations account for early-onset LBD (Escott-Price et al., 2015; Ylönen et al., 2017) and these patients are genotypically and phenotypically different from patients with later onset (Schrag and Schott, 2006; Ferguson et al., 2016; Post et al., 2020). In one study (Walitza et al., 2007), the early-onset group comprised 48.9% of all patients with Parkinson’s disease, yet the population prevalence of early-onset cases is approximately 5–10% of all Parkinson’s disease cases (Wickremaratchi et al., 2009; Mehanna et al., 2014), suggesting the sample may not be representative of, or generalizable to, Parkinson’s disease as a whole. Notably, the sex distribution in Curtin and colleagues’ (Curtin et al., 2018) Parkinson’s disease sample (44% female) is not typical of this disorder, in which males outnumber females 1.5–2:1 (Haaxma et al., 2007), also calling into question the representativeness of their sample.
No studies accounted for attrition, despite acknowledgements that at least some participants withdrew from initial eligible samples (Tzeng et al., 2019) and despite the fact that attrition rates are typically quite high in longitudinal studies of ADHD (e.g., Hartsough et al., 1996). Only one of the studies (Golimstok et al., 2011) considered education in their analyses, despite the fact that adults with ADHD typically have lower educational attainment (Biederman et al., 2008) which may account for important variance in dementia risk (Sharp and Gatz, 2011). Furthermore, previous research has shown that males have a two- to four-times higher risk of developing a neurodevelopmental disorder such as ADHD than females (May et al., 2019), and males have a higher risk of Parkinson’s disease than females (Haaxma et al., 2007), while there is a slightly higher risk for females of developing dementia with Lewy bodies (Mouton et al., 2018). Despite these sex differences, only three of the studies considered sex as a covariate in their statistical models (Curtin et al., 2018; Tzeng et al., 2019; Du Rietz et al., 2021) and one matched groups on sex (Golimstok et al., 2011). Lastly, all articles except two (Tzeng et al., 2019; Fan et al., 2020) disregarded obvious risk factors for developing dementia, such as traumatic brain injury, hypertension, physical inactivity, cardiovascular risk factors, excessive alcohol consumption, and smoking (Bergland et al., 2017; Livingston et al., 2020). Many of these risk factors are increased in ADHD, including traumatic brain injury (Liou et al., 2018), hypertension (Fuemmeler et al., 2011), cardiovascular risk factors (Cortese et al., 2013; Irmisch et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2018; Du Rietz et al., 2021), and smoking (Galéra et al., 2017), and these factors may be accounting for a substantial portion of the putative association between ADHD and later-life neurodegenerative disease (as in Bendayan et al., 2020, for example).
Recall Biases
In two studies (Walitza et al., 2007; Golimstok et al., 2011), participants with mild dementia and healthy controls were asked to self-rate ADHD symptoms during early childhood, to determine whether antecedent ADHD was more frequent in the mild dementia group. In one study (Golimstok et al., 2011), corroborating evidence may have been supplemented by an informant who knew the participant for at least 10 years but not necessarily since childhood. In our view (Sharma et al., 2021), retrospective self-report in older adults—requiring recall from >40 years prior—severely compromises the validity of the data being collected, particularly in samples composed of individuals with cognitive impairment. Even young adults are poor historians of their childhood ADHD symptoms: nearly 40% of 22-year-old adults who do not recall their childhood symptoms actually did have ADHD as children, and roughly 60% remember symptoms that, in fact, were not present (Breda et al., 2020). A possible recall bias is supported by one study’s data (Walitza et al., 2007): healthy control participants (mean age 57.2 years) reported significantly fewer ADHD symptoms relative to the younger healthy normative sample (mean age 29.8 years: Retz-Junginger et al., 2002), whereas it has been established that population samples of younger and older adults should endorse similar rates of ADHD symptoms (Callahan and Plamondon, 2019). Self-report is also less sensitive than informant-report for detecting current and past ADHD symptoms (Zucker et al., 2002; Sibley et al., 2012). Additionally, it is unknown whether participants in these studies were blinded to the study’s aims; being “cued” about possible links between antecedent ADHD and their current condition (LBD) may have inflated their retrospective recall of childhood symptoms.
Balance of Strengths and Weaknesses
We conducted a formal evaluation of the quality of the eight studies in this review using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (Wells et al., 2011), and found many strengths across each (Table 2). All case-control studies had clear criteria for the selection of controls, and two ensured that participants were age- and sex-matched (Golimstok et al., 2011; Fan et al., 2020). Consensus criteria were used in two of the three case-control studies to ascertain neurodegenerative disease outcomes (Walitza et al., 2007; Golimstok et al., 2011). Among cohort studies, strengths included participants drawn from large population cohorts and usually matched on age and sex (or analyses were adjusted for these factors). Follow-up length was at least 10 years in four studies (Curtin et al., 2018; Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018; Tzeng et al., 2019; Du Rietz et al., 2021).
Table 2. Evaluation of the quality of the eight studies in this review using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.
Despite these strengths, two major components required to draw strong conclusions from these studies—ascertainment of exposure (ADHD) and representativeness of the exposed cohort—were flawed across almost all studies: including non-ADHD hyperkinetic syndromes or restricting the sample to those with numerous outpatient visits or hospitalizations results in samples that do not likely represent most ADHD cases, and non-exposed cases were also not systematically assessed to rule out ADHD. Likely, these methodological issues result in a conservative estimate of true effects; that is, without the “noise” generated by the inclusion of non-ADHD cases in the exposed group and potentially missed ADHD in the non-exposed group, associations between exposure and outcome may be even stronger. A second possibility is that the inclusion of non-ADHD cases in the exposed group is driving observed effects. As previously noted, many non-ADHD hyperkinetic disorders—which were included in the exposed cohort in four of the five cohort studies (Curtin et al., 2018; Tzeng et al., 2019; Du Rietz et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2021)—are caused by damage to the basal ganglia (Wichmann and DeLong, 2010) and may conceivably predispose one to further later-life basal ganglia dysfunction (a hallmark of LBD, e.g., McKeith et al., 2017). To tease apart these issues will require careful and systematic assessment of ADHD across all participants within future studies, and an examination of neurodegenerative disease risk in ADHD and non-ADHD hyperkinetic syndromes separately.
Conclusions
These studies present first evidence of a link between ADHD and risk of dementia, specific to LBD. Strengths include well-powered analyses and extensive follow-up periods (>10 years) in most studies. However, six (Curtin et al., 2018; Fluegge and Fluegge, 2018; Tzeng et al., 2019; Fan et al., 2020; Du Rietz et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2021) rely on ICD diagnostic codes extracted from electronic health records, and there are limitations around the validity and accuracy of these codes, particularly for a disorder that is notoriously difficult to detect in adults (Newcorn et al., 2007; Ginsberg et al., 2014). The remaining two (Walitza et al., 2007; Golimstok et al., 2011) are limited by potentially biased and inaccurate self-reported retrospective childhood ADHD symptoms in small samples of cognitively impaired participants.
These studies provide tentative support for ADHD as a potential risk factor for later development of a neurodegenerative disease. Due to the methodological limitations and biases we have identified, we argue that the true association between ADHD and neurodegeneration is not yet identifiable. The sources of biases identified here should be considered in future studies to ascertain the true relative risk of neurodegeneration in patients with ADHD. Accurate and systematic diagnoses of ADHD and neurodegeneration are needed.
Author Contributions
BC conceptualized the work. SB, MS, and BC made substantial contributions to the critical analysis and interpretation of data. SB, MS, and BC wrote initial drafts of the manuscript. SB and BC wrote the final draft. All authors revised it critically for important intellectual content, approved the version to be published, and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
Funding
This work was supported by an Eyes High Postdoctoral Match-Funding Fellowship to SB and by a Canada Research Chair to BC.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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Keywords: aging, Alzheimer disease, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, dementia, Parkinson disease, synucleinopathies, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Citation: Becker S, Sharma MJ and Callahan BL (2022) ADHD and Neurodegenerative Disease Risk: A Critical Examination of the Evidence. Front. Aging Neurosci. 13:826213. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.826213
Received: 30 November 2021; Accepted: 28 December 2021;
Published: 25 January 2022.
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