Psychiatric conditions in young adulthood and cardiometabolic conditions in middle adulthood

What is it about?

We observed that individuals with mental disorders in young adulthood had an increased long-term risk of cardiometabolic complications 40 years later, but that much of this was attributable to general liability toward psychopathology rather than to specific psychiatric conditions. Familial co-aggregation analyses suggested that the elevated risk did not appear attributable to unmeasured confounds shared by siblings.This highlights the importance of transdiagnostic interventions to reduce the risk of cardiometabolic complications, particularly in patients with several mental disorders.

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