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Examining interactions between risk factors for psychosis

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Zammit, Stanley, Lewis, Glyn, Dalman, Christina, Allebeck, Peter·2010·British Journal of Psychiatry

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BACKGROUND: For complex multifactorial diseases it seems likely that co-exposure to two risk factors will show a greater than additive relationship on disease risk. AIMS: To test whether greater than additive relationships occur between risk factors for psychosis. METHOD: A cohort study of 50 053 Swedish conscripts. Data on IQ, cannabis use, psychiatric diagnoses, disturbed behaviour and social relations assessed at age 18 were linked to admissions with any non-affective psychoses over a 27-year follow-up period. Statistical interactions between risk factors were examined under both additive and multiplicative models. RESULTS: There was some evidence of interaction for eight of the ten combinations of risk factors under additive models, but for only one combination under multiplicative models. CONCLUSIONS: Multiplicative models describe the joint effect of risk factors more adequately than additive ones do. However, the implications of finding interactions as observed here, or for most interactions reported to date, remain very limited.

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  • Such patterns of risk for co-exposure to two risk factors are the norm in multifactorial complex diseases.

    “Although such findings could help inform which individuals are at higher risk of psychosis, such patterns of risk for co-exposure to two risk factors are the norm in multifactorial complex diseases (45,46).”

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  1. Zammit S, Allebeck P, Andreasson S, Lundberg I, Lewis G. Self-reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia: further analysis of the 1969 Swedish conscript cohort. BMJ 2002; 325: 1199-201.

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Authors
Zammit, S., Lewis, G., Dalman, C., & Allebeck, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Bristol (GB)
  • Karolinska Institutet (SE)
Corresponding author
Zammit, Stanley
Venue
British Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2010-09
Volume
197
Issue
3
Pages
207-211
ISSN
  • 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-1465
OpenAlex
W2059662415
Cited by
67
References
17
Citations by year
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FWCI
4.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Keywords
psychosis, psychosis risk factors, gene-environment interaction, multiplicative interaction model, IQ, cannabis use, psychiatric diagnosis, behavioral problems, interpersonal relationships, non-affective psychosis, conscripts
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Psychotic Disorders, Risk Factors, Sweden, Models, Statistical, Causality, Young Adult

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