Chronic Kidney Disease Linked To 56% Higher Incidence Of Severe Mental Illness In Sweden

About 7.3% of Swedish adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have serious mental illness (SMI), which is about 56% higher than the 4.7% prevalence of SMI in the general Swedish population. For this study, SMI included schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Among those with CKD, the prevalence of schizophrenia was 0.5%, the prevalence of bipolar disorder was 2.1%, and the prevalence of depression was 5.6%.

People with CKD and SMI had a higher mortality rate. SMI affected other CKD outcomes in terms of experiencing a 30% decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR . . .