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Old September 23rd 06, 01:03 AM posted to misc.kids.health
Mark Probert
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Default Deaths link to Adderall Cannot be Proven

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/100/105792.htm

The 12 deaths were in 7- to 16-year-old U.S. boys. They'd been taking
Adderall products for as little as one day or as long as eight years.
Five of the deaths were in kids with known heart defects. Many of the
other seven children had unusual circumstances that make the link to
Adderall hard to interpret, says Russell Katz, MD, director of the FDA's
neurological drugs office.

"One child was in a boot camp and exercising in 110 degrees," Katz says.
"Two others had high blood levels of the drug, possibly reflecting an
overdose. They way we try to assess causality -- to ask, 'Did the drug
do this?' -- it is hard to answer that by looking at an individual case.
Just because a child died while on Adderall doesn't mean the drug was
the cause. It could have been 50 different causes. So we look at how
many deaths there were in kids exposed to Adderall, and compare that to
the background rate in the population. We don't really believe this is
different than background rate, although we have no good data on the
actual background rate of sudden death in all kids -- or in kids with
ADHD, who may have a higher background rate."

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/adderall.htm

When one considers the rate of sudden death in pediatric patients
treated with Adderall products based on the approximately 30 million
prescriptions written between 1999 and 2003 (the period of time in which
these deaths occurred), it does not appear that the number of deaths
reported is greater than the number of sudden deaths that would be
expected to occur in this population without treatment. For this reason,
the FDA has not decided to take any further regulatory action at this time.

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