HealthDay (9/21, Dallas) reports, “People who have a brother or sister with schizophrenia are 10 times more likely to develop the mental illness,” researchers found after examining data on some “6,000 Israeli patients who were diagnosed and hospitalized with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or depression” who “were compared to about 75,000 healthy peers from an Israeli population database.”
According to Healio (9/21, Oldt), the findings were presented at the annual meeting of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Related Links:
— “Siblings of Schizophrenia Patients at Greater Risk for Same Diagnosis,” Mary Elizabeth Dallas, HealthDay, September 21, 2016.