Insulin Resistance May Be A Hallmark Of Schizophrenia, Study Suggests.

reports researchers found “more evidence of genetic ties between schizophrenia and insulin resistance” after studying “the association between insulin resistance, schizophrenia polygenic risk, and response to treatment in 58 drug-naive patients with schizophrenia and 58 matched healthy individuals while controlling for a range of demographic (age, gender, body mass index), lifestyle (smoking, alcohol and cannabis use) and clinical (psychopathology scores, treatment drug) factors.” The findings were published online April 3 in JAMA Psychiatry. https://login.medscape.com/login/sso/getlogin?urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL3ZpZXdhcnRpY2xlLzkxMTM1Mw==&ac=401