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Quantifying the relative importance of genetics and environment on the comorbidity between mental and cardiometabolic disorders using 17 million Scandinavians | Nature Communications

Jun 12, 2024 | nature.com | Joeri J. Meijsen |Kejia Hu |Morten Krebs |Georgios Athanasiadis |Sarah Washbrook |Richard Zetterberg | +14 more

AbstractMental disorders are leading causes of disability and premature death worldwide, partly due to high comorbidity with cardiometabolic disorders. Reasons for this comorbidity are still poorly understood. We leverage nation-wide health records and near-complete genealogies of Denmark and Sweden (n = 17 million) to reveal the genetic and environmental contributions underlying the observed comorbidity between six mental disorders and 15 cardiometabolic disorders.

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