Analyzing clinical phenotypes of race, ethnicity and sex, as well as history of concussions and depression, were crucial in determining risk for suicide attempts among youth in the United States, a study showed in JAMA Network Open.
“Understanding the role race and ethnicity plays in recovery from concussion is in its infancy. As a result, most of the existing studies on the topic either compare one minority group to white patients with a concussion, or they group all minorities together and compare with white patients with a concussion,” Shawn R. Eagle, PhD, a research assistant