Fig. 1.
Risk factors involved in the association of type 2 diabetes and schizophrenia. The diagram is based on the three reviews (Lin and Shuldiner, 2010; Ward and Druss, 2015; Mizuki et al., 2020). The present study investigates whether the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia is associated with the risk of T2DM onset in the absence of schizophrenia diagnosis, utilizing a general population sample. TD2M, type 2 diabetes.