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Depression
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Mental illness before 35 tracked with dementia after 50
A Molecular Psychiatry study of 2.5 million Swedes compared siblings and found the dementia link runs through a general vulnerability to psychiatric illness, not any one diagnosis.
Jul 28, 2026
Stopping GLP-1 drugs tracked with more anxiety after
A Nature Metabolism study of Shanghai health records found GLP-1 drugs carried no extra psychiatric risk during treatment, but higher risk of depression and anxiety after people stopped.
Jul 28, 2026
Babies born under sugar rationing had less depression
A Molecular Psychiatry study used the end of UK wartime sugar rationing as a natural experiment and found people exposed as infants had 17% lower depression risk decades later.
Jul 28, 2026
Severe mental illness carries 2.6 times the death rate
A Lancet Public Health study of 4.86 million people across five European countries found heart disease drives the most excess deaths in severe mental illness, but lung disease shows the widest gap.
Jul 27, 2026