Tobacco smoking is causally associated with antipsychotic medication use and schizophrenia, but not with antidepressant medication use or depression | Zendy

Marie Kim WiumAndersen | Zendy; David D. Ørsted | Zendy; Børge G. Nordestgaard | Zendy

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Tobacco smoking is causally associated with antipsychotic medication use and schizophrenia, but not with antidepressant medication use or depression

Author(s) -

Marie Kim WiumAndersen,

David D. Ørsted,

Børge G. Nordestgaard

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyv090

Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , antipsychotic , depression (economics) , smoking cessation , antidepressant , confidence interval , population , anxiety , environmental health , pathology , economics , macroeconomics

Tobacco smoking is more common among patients with schizophrenia and depression than among healthy individuals. We tested the hypothesis that high tobacco smoking intensity is causally associated with antipsychotic medication use, schizophrenia, antidepressant medication use and/or depression in the general population, and compared results with those for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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