Death Risk 71% Higher for People With ADHD, 15.9-Million-Person Review Finds
Pooling 19 studies covering 15.9 million people across seven countries, researchers found that a diagnosis of ADHD was linked to roughly 71% higher risk of dying from all causes — with suicide risk nearly doubling, injury-related deaths up 55%, and natural-cause deaths up 27%. The review, led by teams at the University of Liverpool and UCL and published in JAMA Network Open, also found ADHD medication tied to about 25% lower death risk, though that result rests on only three studies and can't prove the medication causes the difference. The authors called for more research on groups barely represented so far, including women and racial and ethnic minorities.
Source: StudyFinds (study in JAMA Network Open, 2026) Rapid Shifts in Blood Sugar and Weight Seen in the First 90 Days of Antipsychotics
In a study of nearly 97,000 adults with severe mental illness using UK primary-care records, blood sugar rose about 14 times faster and weight about 9 times faster in the first 90 days after starting common antipsychotics — olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, or aripiprazole — than in the period before treatment. The UCL-led study in The Lancet Psychiatry found olanzapine showed the largest early changes, and that among people with prediabetes at the start, 19% developed type 2 diabetes within two years, compared with 3% of those with normal baseline levels. Blood-sugar and weight changes didn't always happen together, suggesting weight-only monitoring could miss problems; as an observational study, it can't prove the drugs caused the changes.
Source: Pharmafile (study in The Lancet Psychiatry, 2026) Cutting Ultra-Processed Foods Eased Depression Scores in Small Pilot Study
In a first-of-its-kind pilot, 19 adults with major depression who ate a diet low in ultra-processed foods saw their symptoms fall much further than during their usual-diet period — average depression scores dropped from 12.8 to 5.5, with similar improvements in anxiety measures. The UCSF-led study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, is testing the idea that heavily processed diets may worsen mood through gut-related inflammation, and the authors called the approach feasible enough to justify larger trials. With only 19 participants, the results are early and preliminary — not a treatment recommendation.
Source: Inc. (study in JAMA Psychiatry, 2026)
Pooling 19 studies covering 15.9 million people across seven countries, researchers found that a diagnosis of ADHD was linked to roughly 71% higher risk of dying from all causes — with suicide risk nearly doubling, injury-related deaths up 55%, and natural-cause deaths up 27%. The review, led by teams at the University of Liverpool and UCL and published in JAMA Network Open, also found ADHD medication tied to about 25% lower death risk, though that result rests on only three studies and can't prove the medication causes the difference. The authors called for more research on groups barely represented so far, including women and racial and ethnic minorities.
Source: StudyFinds (study in JAMA Network Open, 2026) Rapid Shifts in Blood Sugar and Weight Seen in the First 90 Days of Antipsychotics
In a study of nearly 97,000 adults with severe mental illness using UK primary-care records, blood sugar rose about 14 times faster and weight about 9 times faster in the first 90 days after starting common antipsychotics — olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, or aripiprazole — than in the period before treatment. The UCL-led study in The Lancet Psychiatry found olanzapine showed the largest early changes, and that among people with prediabetes at the start, 19% developed type 2 diabetes within two years, compared with 3% of those with normal baseline levels. Blood-sugar and weight changes didn't always happen together, suggesting weight-only monitoring could miss problems; as an observational study, it can't prove the drugs caused the changes.
Source: Pharmafile (study in The Lancet Psychiatry, 2026) Cutting Ultra-Processed Foods Eased Depression Scores in Small Pilot Study
In a first-of-its-kind pilot, 19 adults with major depression who ate a diet low in ultra-processed foods saw their symptoms fall much further than during their usual-diet period — average depression scores dropped from 12.8 to 5.5, with similar improvements in anxiety measures. The UCSF-led study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, is testing the idea that heavily processed diets may worsen mood through gut-related inflammation, and the authors called the approach feasible enough to justify larger trials. With only 19 participants, the results are early and preliminary — not a treatment recommendation.
Source: Inc. (study in JAMA Psychiatry, 2026)