ADHD on rise among minority, high-income families |
In Southern California, the diagnosis of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) surged for African American and Latino children and continued a steady increase among kids from higher-income families between 2001 and 2010, a new Kaiser Permanente study shows.
ADHD diagnoses among African American children grew by 70%, and they increased by 60% among Latino children, said the study, which was published online Tuesday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. But the psychiatric diagnosis remained highest by far among white children, among whom 5.6% (up from 4.7% in 2001) were thought to have...
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