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30-11-06, 12:31 AM
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Ethnic minorities in Britain, particularly African-Caribbean and Black Africans, are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia and psychoses than native Britons, researchers said on Tuesday.
In two studies, scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London found that in both men and women schizophrenia was nine times more common in African Caribbean people, six times more likely in Black Africans and 2.5 times more common in non-British whites.
"We found increased rates of psychoses in all ethnic minority groups," said Dr Paul Fearon, lead author of one of the studies.
"African Caribbean and Black African people had remarkably raised rates," he told reporters.
In the largest study looking at psychoses in ethnic minority groups in the UK, Fearon and his team studied rates of schizophrenia and psychotic illnesses among people living in southeast London, Bristol and Nottingham.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/arti...-C2-Business-5
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