Worse outcomes of never-treated compared to treated patients with schizophrenia: 14-year follow-up study in rural China

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@Stefan

To SzAdmin: Are the worse long-term outcome of never-treated patients unrelated to other problems? Is this the conclusion you make?

Not sure exactly what you’re asking. The worse long-term outcomes of never treated, or under-treated and over-treated people all seems to be strongly related to how well people do on medications, and the impact of the medications on their bodies - good and bad.

More here:

Antipsychotic Treatment and Mortality in Schizophrenia: No Drugs = Higher Mortality

Good news for most of the people here: (I know that Firemonkey posted this before - I just wanted to draw attention to it, and the Pubmed reference). CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with schizophrenia, the cumulative antipsychotic exposure displays a U-shaped curve for overall mortality, revealing the highest risk of death among those patients with no antipsychotic use. These results indicate that both excess overall and cardiovascular mortality in schizophrenia is attributable to other factors than antipsychotic treatment when used in adequate dosages.