Schizophrenia was associated with a significantly increased risk for diabetes, which further increased with use of first- and second-generation antipsychotics.
“The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is four to five times higher among people with schizophrenia than in the general population. Those who suffer from both diabetes and schizophrenia have a three- to fourfold higher overall mortality rate than the general population, and at least one-third of those deaths can be attributed to diabetes,” Anto P. Rajkumar, MD, DNB, MRCPsych, PhD, of King’s College London, and colleagues wrote.
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