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Birth dimensions, severe mental illness and risk of type 2 diabetes in a cohort of Danish men born in 1953

Part of: Neuroinflammation, Metabolism and Mental Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Marina Garriga ,
Marie K Wium-Andersen ,
Ida K Wium-Andersen ,
Merete Nordentoft  and
Merete Osler
Marina Garriga*
Affiliation:
Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Unit, Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Marie K Wium-Andersen
Affiliation:
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Ida K Wium-Andersen
Affiliation:
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, Frederiksberg, Denmark Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Department O, Copenhagen, Denmark
Merete Nordentoft
Affiliation:
Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, iPSYCH The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Denmark
Merete Osler
Affiliation:
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, Frederiksberg, Denmark Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals and Danish Ageing Research Center, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
*
*Corresponding author at: Hospital Clínic, 170 Villarroel St., 08036, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. E-mail address: magarriga@clinic.cat (M. Garriga).

Abstract

Background:

Birth dimensions have been associated with increased risk of both, severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes in adulthood, however, any influence on their co-occurrence has never been examined. This cohort study examine whether birth weight/ponderal index explain or modify the later association between severe mental illness and risk of type 2 diabetes.

Methods:

The Metropolit cohort included 10,863 Danish men born in 1953 with information from age at conscription (between1971-84) until February 15th, 2018. Severe mental illness was defined as the exposure and information was retrieved from the national Danish health registries. Information on type 2 diabetes diagnosis or oral antidiabetic prescriptions was also obtained, as they were the outcome of interest. Information on birth weight/ponderal index was available from birth certificates. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to estimate the associations and interactions were tested.

Results:

After 47.1 years of follow-up, 848 (7.8%) and 1320 (12.2%) men developed a severe mental illness or diabetes, respectively. Men with severe mental illness presented higher risk of subsequent diabetes (HR = 1.92; 95%CI, 1.61–2.30). This association was stronger in severe mental ill men with low birth weight (HR = 3.58; 95%CI, 2.11–6.07), than in those normal birth weight (HR = 1.79; 95%CI, 1.45–2.20). This effect modification was most evident for men diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Conclusions:

Birth information on birth weight/ponderal index could be of interest in diabetes screening on severe mental ill populations (especially in schizophrenia) since they might play a critical role in the increased risk of type 2 diabetes following severe mental illness.

Keywords

Birth weightPonderal indexType 2 diabetes mellitusSchizophreniaSevere mental illness
Type
Original article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 62 , October 2019 , pp. 1 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2019

1. Introduction

Individuals with severe mental illnesses are prone to develop different somatic diseases [Reference De Hert, Correll, Bobes, Cetkovich-Bakmas, Cohen and Asai1–Reference Kucukgoncu, Kosir, Zhou, Sullivan, Srihari and Tek3], with schizophrenia [Reference Stubbs, Vancampfort, De Hert and Mitchell2], bipolar disorder [Reference Vancampfort, Mitchell, De Hert, Sienaert, Probst and Buys4] and major depression [Reference Yu, Zhang, Lu and Fang5] repeatedly associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes [Reference Vancampfort, Correll, Galling, Probst, De Hert and Ward6]. Multiple explanations have been proposed, including impaired lifestyle (e.g. scarce physical activity, unhealthy dietary habits, tobacco use) [Reference de Leon and Diaz7–Reference Vancampfort, Knapen, Probst, Scheewe, Remans and De Hert9], the psychiatric illness itself (e.g. negative and cognitive symptoms) [Reference Vancampfort, De Hert, Stubbs, Ward, Rosenbaum and Soundy10], poor medical monitoring, psychopharmacological treatment [Reference Scott and Happell8–Reference Gierisch, Nieuwsma, Bradford, Wilder, Mann-Wrobel and McBroom12], and common biological pathways (epigenetic [Reference Cariaga-Martinez and Alelú-Paz13], immunological [Reference Radhakrishnan, Kaser and Guloksuz14], telomeric [Reference Ridout, Levandowski, Ridout, Gantz, Goonan and Palermo15] and endocrinological [Reference Garcia-Rizo, Kirkpatrick, Fernandez-Egea, Oliveira and Bernardo16] changes) which might also explain the increased risk of diabetes in naïve treated patients [Reference Garcia-Rizo, Kirkpatrick, Fernandez-Egea, Oliveira and Bernardo16, Reference Garcia-Rizo, Fernandez-Egea, Bernardo and Kirkpatrick17].

The “Developmental Origins of Health and Disease” hypothesis proposes that intrauterine adverse environments could affect the physiology of the offspring and hereby increase the later risk of somatic diseases, thought fetal programming models [Reference Hales and Barker18–Reference Portella, Kajantie, Hovi, Desai, Ross and Goldani20]. Hence, indicators of impaired fetal growth, such as low birth weight, low ponderal index (a weight-height parameter related with the fetal growth pattern) and small-for-gestational-age, have shown to be related with both, somatic diseases and mortality, in adult age [Reference Barker19, Reference Martyn, Barker, Jespersen, Greenwald, Osmond and Berry21–Reference Ahlgren, Wohlfahrt, Olsen, Sørensen and Melbye24] as well as with later psychopathology [Reference Mathewson, Chow, Dobson, Pope, Schmidt and Van Lieshout25–Reference Abel, Wicks, Susser, Dalman, Pedersen and Mortensen31].

Several studies on sub-optimal environment in fetal life have already shown that birth dimensions related to fetal growth, such as low birth weight, are risk factors for both, severe mental illness [Reference Van den Bergh, van den Heuvel, Lahti, Braeken, de Rooij and Entringer32, Reference O’Donnell and Meaney33] and type 2 diabetes [Reference Hales and Barker22, Reference Whincup, Kaye, Owen, Huxley, Cook and Anazawa34, Reference Harder, Rodekamp, Schellong, Dudenhausen and Plagemann35], separately, even after accounting for potential confounding factors such as heritability, lifestyle and socioeconomic environment. On the schizophrenia field, it has been proposed that severe mental ill patients might present a vulnerability to develop both, the mental and metabolic disease, due to a higher epidemiologic ratio of diverse obstetric complications [Reference Suvisaari, Taxell-Lassas, Pankakoski, Haukka, Lonnqvist and Hakkinen36, Reference Mezquida, Fernandez-Egea, Treen, Mané, Bergé and Savulich37] (such as extremes on birth weight), with the presence of glucose disturbances already present at the onset of the psychiatric illness [Reference Fernandez-Egea, Bernardo, Donner, Conget, Parellada and Justicia38]. In this line of research, no studies have explored the role of birth dimensions such as birth weight and ponderal index on the association between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes.

In this study, we tested if the potential association between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes was explained or modified by birth weight or ponderal index, as markers of fetal growth.

2. Methods

2.1 Study population

The Metropolit cohort includes 11,532 men born in 1953 in the Copenhagen Metropolitan area and has been described elsewhere [Reference Osler, Lund, Kriegbaum, Christensen and A-MN39]. A total of 10,863 men were included after excluding those with missing information on birth weight or height, those born twins/ triplets and those who died or emigrated before age of conscription (see Fig. 1 for cohort flowchart).

Fig. 1. Flowchart diagram of included participants from the Metropolit cohort. *As the ICD8 code did not distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, categorization into type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the ICD8 was based age (<35 years defined as Type 1 diabetes and ≥35 years as type 2 diabetes).

2.2 Exposure: severe mental illnesses

Information on admissions to a psychiatric or somatic ward from 1969 or 1977, respectively, and until end of follow-up (February 15th 2018) was obtained by linkage with the Danish Psychiatric Central Registry and the Danish National Patient Registry using the person identification number as key. The registers hold individual data on type of patient contact (inpatient information from 1969/1977; emergency room and outpatient information from 1995), diagnosis, and date of admission and discharge for all hospital admissions in Denmark. Diagnoses have been coded according to the 8th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD8) from 1969 to 1995, and the 10th Revision (ICD10) from 1995 and onwards. In the present study, men were registered at their first mental health contact with any of the severe mental illness diagnoses outlined in Fig. 1. Due to a considerable diagnostic overlap between major depression and bipolar disorder (n = 375), the final sample was divided into two clinical psychiatric spectrums: schizophrenia and related disorders and affective disorders (see Supplementary eFig. 1 in Supplementary Material).

2.3 Outcome: type 2 diabetes MELLITUS

Information on type 2 diabetes was derived according to ICD-8/ICD-10 codes from the Danish National Patient Register from 1977 to end of follow-up. In addition to hospital diabetes diagnoses, we also identified antidiabetic prescriptions from the Danish National Database of Reimbursed Prescriptions as many patients with diabetes are treated only in primary care. The prescription database contains data from 1995 on all reimbursed drugs dispensed at all Danish pharmacies, and the information includes the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system codes and dispensing dates. Selected ICD and ATC codes are shown in Fig. 1.

Outcome of interest was defined as first hospital discharge or death from a diagnosis of diabetes or a diabetic complication or as first prescription of an antidiabetic drug from 1995 or later, whichever came first. If uncertainty of diabetes type 1 or 2 diagnosis occurred, a cut-off age of 35 years old was used, where those above were considered to present type 2 diabetes.

2.4 Fetal growth: birth weight and ponderal index

Birth weight and ponderal index were used as proxy measures for fetal growth and gestational age at birth as these covariables were not available. Birth weight was recorded in 100 g groups and analyzed in three categories: ≤2500 low birth weight; 2500–4000 normal birth weight; and ≥4000 g high birth weight. Ponderal index, calculated as birth weight [Kg]/birth length [meters]3, was also included as it is theoretically assumed to measure fetal growth and thereby discriminate between intra-uterine well-fed (high ponderal index) and disproportionate growth restricted newborns (low ponderal index) [Reference Crusell, Damm, Hansen, Pedersen, Glümer and Vaag40]. Ponderal index was analyzed as three-category variable (1st quintile; 2nd-4th quintile; 5th quintile).

2.5 Other covariables

Dates on death and emigration were followed from 1968 until February 15th 2018 by register linkage with the Danish Civil Registration System. From the birth certificates, we further included maternal age in years (categorized as <20, 20–34.9 and ≥35yo) and paternal occupational social class (categorized as white collar worker (self-employed and salaried employee), blue collar worker (skilled and unskilled workers) or unknown at the time of delivery).

All young Danish men are required by law to be physically and mentally examined at the Danish conscription board to evaluate their eligibility for military service. This information was collected manually from conscript board registers. From the conscript examinations (approximately at age 18–24), we included information on educational level categorized as basic (7–10 years: primary school with or without finals), middle (9–12 years: middle and secondary school, or skilled training in industry, trade and craft) and high (<12 years: secondary school final, medium length or higher education). We also retrieved cognitive ability information assessed by the Børge Priens Prøve (BPP), which has been shown to correlate with the Wechler Adult Intelligence Scale [Reference Mortensen and Reinisch41]. The BPP total continuous score (from 0 to 78) was categorized in tertiles (low, medium and high IQ scores). Body height and weight at conscription were used for calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI = weight [kg]/height [m]2) and later categorized into less than 18.5 (underweight), 18.5–25 (normal weight), and ≥25 (overweight/obesity). These variables were included as they were assumed to be relevant based on previous research associating them with both development of severe mental illness and diabetes.

2.6 Statistical analyses

Stata version 13.1 on Windows was used for all statistical analyses. Missing values were coded and included in the analyses (see Table 1). Baseline characteristics of study subjects were calculated using Chi-square tests due to the categorical nature of the variables.

Table 1 The distribution (%) of severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes in 10,863 Danish men born in 1953 in relation to covariates.

Chi-square test was performed in each marked category versus reference (Ref) group:

† p-values lower than 0.05.

‡ p-values lower than 0.01.

* Missing values mainly due to exemption from conscription examination.

The association between severe mental illness and diabetes was analyzed using Cox proportional hazards regression models with age as the underlying time scale and provided hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Cohort members were followed from age at conscription (between 1971-84) and until first diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (as this meant individuals were no longer at risk of receiving a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes), first prescription from a non-insulin antidiabetic drug, death, emigration, or end of follow-up (February 15th, 2018), whichever came first. For individuals who missed the date for attending conscription (n = 145), study entry was defined as age at January 1st, 1971. Further, men who had died (n = 16) or emigrated (n = 18) before 1971 were excluded, leaving 10,863 men to be included in the analyses. The exposures (schizophrenia, affective disorders, and the combined variable of severe mental illness) were included as time-dependent variables in separate models so that men diagnosed with any severe mental illness changed exposure status from non-exposed to exposed at time of first diagnosis. This was done to avoid immortal time bias. Prevalent cases of psychiatric disorders at the time of conscription (n = 14) were included as exposed at the time of study entry. No individuals had diabetes at the time of study entry. The proportional hazards assumption was tested graphically by plotting –log (−log(survival)) vs. log (follow-up time) and no important violations were found.

First, we examined the association between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes in three models where covariates were included sequentially. Next, to study whether fetal growth markers could explain the associations between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes, birth weight was included into the model as a categorical variable (low, normal, or high). In this model, we further adjusted for birth length. We repeated all sequential analyses using ponderal index in three categories (low, middle, or high) instead of birth weight. Finally, to examine if fetal growth markers modified the association between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes, interaction terms “birth weight*severe mental illness” and “ponderal index*severe mental illness” were included in the regression models and differences in goodness of fit compared to the original model were tested using likelihood ratio tests.

3. Results

3.1 Distribution of Cohort Covariates

During follow-up (median of 47.1 years, IQR 44.9–47.1 years), 7.8% (n = 848) men were diagnosed with severe mental illness, while 12.2% (n = 1320) developed type 2 diabetes. The distribution of covariates in the cohort as well as in the severe mental illness subgroups and diabetes are shown in Table 1. Severe mental illness and diabetes were more frequent in men with basic educational level (p < 0.01 and p = 0.03, respectively) and lower cognitive scores (p < 0.01 for each). Underweight in young adulthood was associated with severe mental illness (p < 0.01), and overweight/obesity was related with type 2 diabetes. Severe mental illness was not associated with fetal growth, while diabetes was more frequent in men with reduced fetal growth (p < 0.01 for both, the lowest category of birth weight and ponderal index compared to the normal/middle groups).

3.2 Associations between severe mental illness and Diabetes

The Cox regression models to evaluate the longitudinal association between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes showed that men who developed severe mental illness had higher risk of subsequent type 2 diabetes (hazard ratios (HR) = 1.92 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.61–2.30]). This estimate was only slightly attenuated when we first included covariates such as mother´s age, father´s occupational status, educational level, cognitive performance and BMI at conscription (HR = 1.85 [1.55–2.23] as well as when later including fetal growth markers covariates (Table 2). Similar patterns were seen when analyses were restricted to men with schizophrenia and related disorders (HR = 1.83 [1.39–2.39]) and affective spectrum disorders (HR = 1.91 [1.52–2.41]).

Table 2 Associations (Hazard Ratio (HR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI)) between overall and subtype of severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes in 10863 Danish men born in 1953 followed from 1971 to 2018.

Model 1: unadjusted.

Model 2: adjusted for mother's age and father's occupational status.

Model 3: further adjusted for education, IQ, and BMI at conscription.

Model 4: model 3 + further adjusted for BW (and also includes adjustment for birth length).

Model 5: model 3 + further adjusted for PI.

BW = Birth Weight; PI = Ponderal Index; SMI: Severe mental illness; T2DM: type 2 diabetes.

3.3 The impact of birth weight and ponderal index on the association between severe mental illness and diabetes

Next, we tested whether these associations between severe mental illness and diabetes were modified by birth dimensions such as birth weight and ponderal index. Fig. 2 illustrates the associations (unadjusted HR) between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes in the three categories of birth weight with individuals with normal birth weight (2600–3900 g) and no severe mental illness as reference group. Men born with low birth weight who developed severe mental illness had a higher risk of diabetes (HR = 3.58 [2.11–6.07]), than men with normal birth weight and a severe mental illness (HR = 1.79 [1.45–2.20]) or men with low birth weight who did not develop severe mental illness (HR = 1.31 [1.05–1.63]). After further adjustment for maternal age, parental occupational status, educational level, cognitive performance and BMI at conscription we found that the observed HR only attenuated slightly (see Supplementary Fig. 2). These results were similar when examining schizophrenia and affective spectrum disorders separately (see Fig. 2), with the highest observed risk for diabetes amongst those born with a low birth weight and schizophrenia (HR = 5.66 [2.53–12.64]). Similarly, risk estimates only attenuated slightly, when further adjusting for the variables mentioned above (Supplementary Fig. 2).

Fig. 2. Hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the association between severe mental illness (SMI) and type 2 diabetes mellitus according to birth weight (BW). Black and white diamonds represents those with or without severe mental illness, respectively. *All analyses are unadjusted.

Thus, the risk estimate for those exposed to both, low birth weight and severe mental illness (HR = 3.58), was slightly higher than what would be expected under a multiplicative model (HRexpected of 1.31 × 1.79 = 2.34). Same tendency was observed for those combining high birth weight (>4000 g) and severe mental illness (HRobserved = 1.95 [1.24–3.08] vs. HRexpected = 1.52). When the analyses were restricted to schizophrenia and affective spectrum disorders, we found that the risk of diabetes in men with low birth weight and schizophrenia was much larger (HRobserved = 5.66 [2.53–12.64]) than expected (HRexpected = 2.68) with a significant interaction term (birth weight*severe mental illness; p = 0.03). However, due to low power the risk estimate was imprecisely estimated.

We also explored if ponderal index modified the effect of severe mental illness on risk of developing type 2 diabetes on unadjusted (Fig. 3) and adjusted models (Supplementary Fig. 3). The results of these analyses were similar to those obtained from birth weight, albeit with slightly attenuated risk estimates. We observed how those men born with low ponderal index who developed a severe mental illness had a higher risk of type 2 diabetes (HR = 3.10 [2.23–4.30]), than men born with normal ponderal index and a severe mental illness (HR = 1.82 [1.43–2.32]) or men with low ponderal index who did not develop severe mental illness (HR = 1.22 [1.07–1.41]). These results were also present in adjusted models (Supplementary Fig. 3) and when analyzing the two severe mental illness subgroups. Again, the largest risk effect for diabetes was in those born with a low ponderal index and schizophrenia (HR = 4.43 [2.80–6.98]). However, low ponderal index did not modify the association between severe mental illness (overall and by sub-group) and type 2 diabetes with a borderline significant interaction term (ponderal index*severe mental illness) for those in the schizophrenia group (p = 0.08).

Fig. 3. Hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the association between severe mental illness (SMI) and type 2 diabetes mellitus according to ponderal index (PI). Black and white diamonds represents those with or without severe mental illness, respectively. *All analyses are unadjusted.

4. Discussion

In this population-based cohort study of Danish men followed from age 18 to age 65, we found that the risk of type 2 diabetes was nearly doubled in men with severe mental illness compared to men without. The association was only slightly attenuated when adjusted for social factors, birth dimensions or BMI in young adulthood, suggesting that birth dimensions such as birth weight and ponderal index were not an important confounder for this association. On the other hand, in the models aimed to test if birth dimensions related with fetal growth modified this association, the risk estimates were higher than the expected in men with extremes birth weight/ponderal index and severe mental illness, which indicated an interaction between birth dimensions and severe mental illness on the risk of diabetes. This was most evident for men diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Our results are consistent with previous research showing that the frequency of type 2 diabetes is two-fold higher in people with severe mental illness that in the general population [Reference Kucukgoncu, Kosir, Zhou, Sullivan, Srihari and Tek3, Reference Vancampfort, Mitchell, De Hert, Sienaert, Probst and Buys4, Reference Rajkumar, Horsdal, Wimberley, Cohen, Mors and Børglum42]. Although fetal birth dimensions, socioeconomic factors, and lifestyle have been associated with both, severe mental illness and diabetes, later adjustment for mothers´ age, fathers´ socioeconomic position, BMI and cognitive performance at conscription only explained a minor part of this association in our cohort. Our current understanding of the complex mechanisms linking severe mental illness and increased risk for diabetes mellitus has greatly improved in the past 15 years [Reference Holt and Mitchell43]. Possible related mechanisms might include shared genetic and environmental factors as well as effects of the psychiatric illness (e.g., cognitive impairment, negative and depressive symptoms, poor physical monitoring…) and its psychopharmacological treatment. However, these multiple and complex factors that might start together in an early-life common pathway (where processes such as low grade inflammation as well as subtle metabolic disarrangements are emerging since the fetal life) should be investigated in more detail in order to improve current knowledge of fetal programming models [Reference Stubbs, Vancampfort, De Hert and Mitchell2, Reference Garcia-Rizo, Fernandez-Egea, Bernardo and Kirkpatrick17, Reference Holt and Mitchell43, Reference Van den Bergh44].

As expected, the increased association between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes was stronger in men with low birth weight and the interaction was replicated for ponderal index. Furthermore, this association was especially present in patients with schizophrenia. Besides the lack of similar studies on affective spectrum disorders and diabetes, these results are in line with previous research on naïve and treatment-resistant patients with schizophrenia, low birth weight and antipsychotic induced weight gain as outcome [Reference Ziauddeen, Garcia-Rizo, Bernardo, Kirkpatrick, Ozanne and Jones45, Reference Garriga, Fernandez-Egea, Mallorqui, Serrano, Oliveira and Parellada46]. Cross sectional results have shown an increased obesity due to antipsychotics in those with low birth weight and a treated-resistant psychosis in comparison with naïve patients [Reference Ziauddeen, Garcia-Rizo, Bernardo, Kirkpatrick, Ozanne and Jones45]. However, when doing prospective follow-up studies, of psychotic patients starting obesogenic antipsychotics (such as olanzapine and clozapine), birth weight did not present the same modifier effect on antipsychotic induced weight gain [Reference Garriga, Fernandez-Egea, Mallorqui, Serrano, Oliveira and Parellada46]. After 16–18 weeks of antipsychotics, low birth weight only predicted weight gain in naïve patients starting their first antipsychotic, while these results were not replicated in patients that had been already treated (psychotic treated resistant patients) [Reference Garriga, Fernandez-Egea, Mallorqui, Serrano, Oliveira and Parellada46]. Other factors such as unhealthy lifestyle, older age, medical co-morbidities or previous antipsychotic medication have to be then also considered. Combined, the present results adds to the hypothesis that posits that adverse intrauterine environment (fetal programming) primes the offspring to become more vulnerable to metabolic risk factors (such as type 2 diabetes) and severe mental illness [Reference Hales and Barker18, Reference Portella, Kajantie, Hovi, Desai, Ross and Goldani20, Reference Van den Bergh, van den Heuvel, Lahti, Braeken, de Rooij and Entringer32, Reference O’Donnell and Meaney47]. Still, the high level of co-morbidity and the early mortality due to cardiovascular and metabolic related diseases observed in SMI patients [Reference Correll, Solmi, Veronese, Bortolato, Rosson and Santonastaso48] might not be completely integrated under this approach. Opposed to the evidence which links impaired fetal growth (extremes on birth weight/ponderal index) with the later development mental illness and diabetes in a separated mechanism, a more heuristic concept (the “thrifty psychiatric phenotype”) [Reference Garcia-Rizo, Fernandez-Egea, Bernardo and Kirkpatrick17], proposes that subjects who experienced menaces during the intrauterine life might be at higher risk of developing mental illness in later life with contemporaneous anomalies in metabolic programming through an abnormal glycemic response.

We did not include use of antipsychotic medication in our analyses as we wanted to answer the question if fetal growth might influence in the later development of type 2 diabetes in severe mental ill patients independently of treatment. Antipsychotic medications have shown to increase the risk of diabetes and have been used during the study period which could have confounded our results [Reference Kessing, Thomsen, Mogensen and Andersen49, Reference Knyahnytska, Williams, Dale and Webster50]. However, glucose abnormalities have been previously found in antipsychotic naïve patients suffering from both, psychotic and affective disorders [Reference Garcia-Rizo, Kirkpatrick, Fernandez-Egea, Oliveira and Bernardo16, Reference Pillinger, Beck, Gobjila, Donocik, Jauhar and Howes51]. Thus, a recent population-based cohort study on psychotic patients showed increased endogenous risk of diabetes in antipsychotic-naïve patients compared with people without schizophrenia [Reference Rajkumar, Horsdal, Wimberley, Cohen, Mors and Børglum42], strengthening the hypothesis that severe mental illness in itself increases the endogenous vulnerability for diabetes despite the pharmacological treatment.

Finally, in our analyses of a potential modifying effect of fetal growth, we additionally observed that within men who developed severe mental illness (especially schizophrenia), there seemed to be a U-shaped relationship between fetal growth and type 2 diabetes, which has been previously reported in non-psychiatric populations [Reference Whincup, Kaye, Owen, Huxley, Cook and Anazawa34, Reference Harder, Rodekamp, Schellong, Dudenhausen and Plagemann35, Reference Zhao, Song, Zhang, Zhen, Song and Ma52] (Figs. 2 and 3). Contrary, for men without mental illness, the relation between fetal growth markers and diabetes seemed more linear. Both, U-shaped and a linear inverse relationships between fetal growth markers and the risk of type 2 diabetes have been previously described in non-psychiatric populations [Reference Whincup, Kaye, Owen, Huxley, Cook and Anazawa34, Reference Harder, Rodekamp, Schellong, Dudenhausen and Plagemann35, Reference Zhao, Song, Zhang, Zhen, Song and Ma52], where sample characteristics, differences in the categorization of the variables and in the use of covariates might play a role in this discrepancies.

4.1 Strengths and limitations

The present study includes a population-based sample of Danish men born in 1953, followed over nearly 50 years in nationwide registers using the unique Danish person identification number as key. This allows virtually complete follow-up, making bias due to loss-to-follow-up unlikely. The follow-op period covers the ages where most cases of severe mental illnesses diabetes develop. We had prospectively collected information on birth dimensions and conscript board examinations, which eliminate risk of recall bias.

However, the study also has limitations. Our results were based on a cohort of Danish men (Caucasian race), and the findings may not be generalized to the different ethnicities or female gender. On gender regard, available studies do not indicate gender differences on the risk of diabetes following severe mental illness [Reference Mangurian, Schillinger, Newcomer, Vittinghoff, Essock and Zhu53]. Taking all together, we have no reasons to believe that our finding should not adhere to women. However, studies including women or Asian populations have also found that severe mental illness is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Misclassification of severe mental illness could be present since we only had hospital diagnoses (since 1969) and outpatient clinics information from 1995 and information from psychiatric practices or general practitioners was not available. Hence, it is possible that some men were falsely coded as non-exposed of severe mental illness. However, any such underreporting of the exposure would only tend to underestimate the association. Also, the Danish National Patient Register might not include the milder cases of diabetes treated only in general practice. Consequently, we further included prescription register data on antidiabetic medication for case ascertainment which was, however, only available from 2004. Some cases of bipolar disorder could be firstly diagnosed as unipolar major depression; consequently, we decided to analyze the two forms of affective disorder together (affective disorders) while presenting results in a more conservative manner. Despite the fact that several confounders were included in the analyses, we lacked data on genetic disposition and maternal health which determine low birth weight and disease risk of offspring [Reference Nilsson, Lichtenstein, Cnattingius, Murray and Hultman54], however adjustment for birth dimensions did not explain the association between severe mental illness and diabetes. People with severe mental illness are likely to have a poorer lifestyle and suffer from other somatic diseases, but such factors were considered as mediators of the association and consequently not adjusted for.

4.2 Conclusion

In conclusion, men with severe mental illness had higher risk of type 2 diabetes than men without. Birth dimensions did not explain the association but seemed to modify it suggesting that men with low birth weight or low ponderal index had higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes following severe mental illness, especially schizophrenia. The evaluation, not only of birth weight/ponderal index, but also different early stressful events (e.g. obstetric complications and other birth dimensions), during pregnancy and initial years such as infant/childhood trauma [Reference Mezquida, Fernandez-Egea, Treen, Mané, Bergé and Savulich37, Reference Hepgul, Pariante, Dipasquale, DiForti, Taylor and Marques55], might help understanding which patients will be at greater risk of developing diabetes while helping in the implementation of more targeted interventions in selected patients, especially in patients with schizophrenia.

Disclosures

M Garriga has received grants and served as consultant or advisor for Ferrer, Lundbeck, Janssen, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Instituto de Salud Carlos III through a ‘Rıo Hortega’ contract (CM17/00102), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM).

Funding/support

M Garriga received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Instituto de Salud Carlos III through a ‘Rıo Hortega’ contract (CM17/00102, to Dr. Garriga), FEDER, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del Departament d’Economia i Coneixement (2017SGR1365), and the CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya.

MK Wium-Andersen received funding from the Lundbeck Foundation.

I Wium-Andersen received funding from the Lundbeck Foundation and the Jascha Foundation.

The revitalization of Metropolit cohort has been funded by grants from the Lundbeck Foundation, the Danish health Insurance Fund, Danish heart Association and the Danish Fund for Independendt Research (grant number 8020-00031B)

Merete Nordentoft received funding from the Lundbeck Foundation (iPSYCH).

The different funding sources had no involvement in conduct of the research or in the preparation of the present paper.

Declaration of Competing Interest

Other authors declare no conflict of interests for this paper.

Acknowledgements

We thank all those who initiated and/or continued the Metropolit study: K Svalastoga, E Høgh, P Wolf, T Rishøj, G Strande-Sørensen, E Manniche, B Holten, IA Weibull and A Ortman. Authors also want to thank to C Garcia-Rizo for inspiring this work and Professor E Vieta for his valuable support.

Appendix A Supplementary data

Supplementary material related to this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2019.08.015.

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Fig. 1. Flowchart diagram of included participants from the Metropolit cohort. *As the ICD8 code did not distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, categorization into type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the ICD8 was based age (<35 years defined as Type 1 diabetes and ≥35 years as type 2 diabetes).

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Table 1 The distribution (%) of severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes in 10,863 Danish men born in 1953 in relation to covariates.

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Table 2 Associations (Hazard Ratio (HR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI)) between overall and subtype of severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes in 10863 Danish men born in 1953 followed from 1971 to 2018.

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Fig. 2. Hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the association between severe mental illness (SMI) and type 2 diabetes mellitus according to birth weight (BW). Black and white diamonds represents those with or without severe mental illness, respectively. *All analyses are unadjusted.

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Fig. 3. Hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the association between severe mental illness (SMI) and type 2 diabetes mellitus according to ponderal index (PI). Black and white diamonds represents those with or without severe mental illness, respectively. *All analyses are unadjusted.

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