People with similar mental health conditions tend to end up together, raising risk within families
The old saying that birds of a feather flock together may hold even when people with psychiatric illnesses choose their partners. A recent JAMA Psychiatry study investigated whether parents were more likely to share mental and physical health conditions and how this pattern of pairing affects disease risk.
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