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Final results of sub-analyses of dose-titration study and long-term,

open-label study presented today

WASHINGTON, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Although once considered to be a disorder only seen in children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is now known to be a condition associated with a wide range of functional impairments throughout the lifespan(1). In the US, the overall prevalence of ADHD in adults is estimated to range between 3.4% and 4.4%(2), and between 30 and 70% of children with ADHD continue to exhibit symptoms into adult years(3).

Today at the 161st Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) there were new insights provided into treatment of adult ADHD with OROS(R) methylphenidate (MPH) HCl Extended-release Tablets. The findings included efficacy and safety sub-analyses from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-titration trial completed in 2007 and final results from a long-term, open-label safety trial.

"What we're learning more and more is that adult ADHD, while considered the same medical condition as pediatric ADHD, often has a strikingly different patient impact due to what can be a lifetime of functional impairment related to individualized symptoms," noted Lenard Adler*, M.D., Director of the Adult ADHD Program at the NYU Langone Medical Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Adler* participated as an investigator in the long-term, open-label trial and was the lead investigator of the placebo-controlled dose-titration trial presented in October 2007. In that study, 226 patients with ADHD ages 18-65 were randomized to receive placebo or OROS(R) MPH (36 to 108 mg/day) for seven weeks; results showed significant improvements with OROS(R) MPH in symptom management compared to placebo.

Efficacy Findings from Short-Term, Dose-Titration Trial

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