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. 2021 Mar 15;11:163. doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01282-1

Table 3.

Cox proportional hazards modelling of common variant genetic risk scores in association with specific causes of death in Swedish cases of schizophrenia (Genomics subset, n = 1253 SCZ cases who died).

Common variant genetic risk scores
Cause of death Died from specific cause, n Died from other cause, n SCZ Cognitive ability BMI Coronary artery disease Total cholesterol Chronic kidney disease Smoking Type 2 diabetes
Any cancer 227 1026 1.08 (0.93–1.27) 0.79 (0.68–0.92, P = 0.002) 0.94 (0.81–1.08) 0.99 (0.87–1.14) 1.01 (0.88–1.15) 1.13 (0.98–1.29) 0.86 (0.75–0.98) 0.94 (0.81–1.09)
Breast cancer 11 1242 1.59 (0.74–3.44) 0.65 (0.31–1.40) 0.78 (0.38–1.60) 1.24 (0.62–2.50) 0.54 (0.27–1.07) 1.01 (0.51–1.99) 0.72 (0.37–1.43) 0.70 (0.32–1.50)
Lung cancer 66 1187 0.97 (0.72–1.31) 0.87 (0.66–1.16) 1.08 (0.83–1.40) 0.96 (0.75–1.23) 1.05 (0.82–1.34) 0.99 (0.77–1.28) 0.71 (0.55–0.91) 0.91 (0.69–1.19)
Cardiovascular disease 323 930 0.99 (0.87–1.12) 0.94 (0.83–1.06) 0.94 (0.84–1.06) 0.95 (0.84–1.06) 0.98 (0.88–1.09) 0.99 (0.88–1.11) 0.97 (0.87–1.09) 1.08 (0.95–1.22)
Stroke 60 1193 0.88 (0.65–1.20) 1.04 (0.78–1.39) 0.95 (0.72–1.25) 0.94 (0.72–1.24) 0.91 (0.70–1.18) 0.94 (0.72–1.23) 1.20 (0.92–1.55) 0.97 (0.73–1.28)
External causes 75 1178 1.17 (0.89–1.54) 1.00 (0.77–1.29) 1.12 (0.88–1.44) 0.96 (0.76–1.22) 1.08 (0.86–1.35) 1.06 (0.84–1.35) 0.98 (0.78–1.24) 0.97 (0.75–1.25)
Suicide 31 1222 0.86 (0.56–1.31) 0.85 (0.57–1.27) 0.90 (0.62–1.32) 0.90 (0.61–1.32) 0.66 (0.46–0.94) 0.89 (0.62–1.29) 0.87 (0.60–1.25) 0.72 (0.49–1.06)
Other causes 391 862 1.01 (0.89–1.14) 1.07 (0.95–1.20) 1.01 (0.91–1.13) 1.02 (0.92–1.13) 1.05 (0.95–1.16) 0.94 (0.84–1.04) 1.01 (0.91–1.12) 0.97 (0.87–1.08)

Hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) are presented. No effects statistically significant at the Bonferroni-adjusted p value. All exposures (genetic risk scores) are included in a single model along with the first five ancestry principal components.