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Pediatrics has a new longitudinal study examining predictors of hyperactivity in young children. Using a strong method for identifying participating children, E. Romano and colleagues followed 100 children for about 5 years and found that those with more persistent and higher degrees of hyperactivity were (a) boys of mothers who (b) smoked during pregnanacy, (c) were depressed, and were said to (d) use “hostile parenting.” Here’s a link to the abstract.

Development and Prediction of Hyperactive Symptoms From 2 to 7 Years in a Population-Based Sample
Elisa Romano, PhD, Richard E. Tremblay, PhD, Abdeljelil Farhat, PhD, and Sylvana Côté, PhD
PEDIATRICS Vol. 117 No. 6 June 2006, pp. 2101-2110 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-0651)