MedPage Today (9/9, Hlavinka) reports that diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) “were more common in Black people than for people of other races/ethnicities,” investigators concluded in a meta-analysis that revealed “in 21 U.S. studies conducted from 1979-2020, the pooled prevalence of” AD/HD “was 14.54% for Black adults and children and 13.87% for Black children only.” In comparison, “estimates for” AD/HD “prevalence in all races/ethnicities hover around 10% in children and are lower in adults.” The findings were published online Sept. 9 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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