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Numerous studies over decades have shown that Black Americans are diagnosed at higher rates of schizophrenia than White Americans. In a 2018 analysis of data from 52 different studies, researchers found that Black Americans are 2.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Other studies have shown that Blacks are diagnosed at three and four times the rate of white people.
https://www.psycom.net/schizophrenia-racial-disparities-black-people
They found that race most strongly predicting a Schizophrenia diagnosis. Results concluded that Latino Americans where more than three times more likely to be diagnosed with Schizophrenia than Euro-Americans. However, Minsky et al[19] explained that African Americans continued to reflect being most strongly diagnosed with schizophrenia, which is four times more likely than Euro-Americans.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/
https://web.archive.org/web/20240416081752/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/