Prevalence and correlates of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: meta-analysis

By V. Simon, P. Czobor, S. Bálint, Á. Mészáros, I. Bitter. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2009

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European consensus statement on diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD: The European Network Adult ADHD (2010, background): “epidemiological studies is in the range of 2-5% [16-19].”
Why Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in Males? (2011, background): “However, it drops to 2:1 to 4:1 in community samples [108,109,110] and the majority of studies in adults show no significant effect of sex on prevalence [111].”
The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder. (2021, positive): “22 A meta-analysis of six studies with over 5300 participants estimated the prevalence of ADHD in adulthood to be 2.5 % (Simon et al., 2009).”
Adult ADHD and comorbid disorders: clinical implications of a dimensional approach (2017, background): “1) [14], with adults with ADHD presenting with symptoms such as: failing to pay attention to detail,”
The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys (2016, result): “Metaanalysis finds that this association is negative (Simon et al. 2009), a result that we replicate in the WMH surveys despite the fact that the age range of our sample was truncated (18–44).”