Clinical characteristics and pharmacotherapy choices in children newly diagnosed with tic disorders in China: a retrospective cohort study.

BMJ Paediatr Open · 2025 · PMC12458799 · PMID 40967636

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With increasing age, PTD (preschool: 90.5% vs school age: 74.6% vs adolescence: 53.2%) seemed to exhibit a decreasing trend, whereas both CTD (preschool: 4.4% vs school age: 11.6% vs adolescence: 24.5%) and TS (preschool: 5.1% vs school age: 13.8% vs adolescence: 22.3%) tended to demonstrate an increasing trend.

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