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biomedcentral.com said in 2006 schizophrenics had 2- 4 times more prevalence for diabetes and it was not caused by the disease but by the treatment
- Conclusion -
'The absence of cases of Type 2 diabetes before the onset of psychosis, in either the contemporary or historical mental illness samples, combined with a more rapid rate of development of Type 2 diabetes in the contemporary sample than is the norm in the population in general, appears to make it more likely that treatment with antipsychotic drugs rather than the underlying illness contributes to the current prevalence rates found for diabetes in patients with serious mental illness. '
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/8/67
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