{"title":"Exceptional racism at the dawn of scientific psychiatry in Brazil: the curious case of Juliano Moreira: commentary.","authors":"Peter Tyrer","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 5","pages":"510"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142806272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ebenezer Oloyede, Christian J Bachmann, Olubanke Dzahini, Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz, Shaurya Dev Singh, Kalliopi Vallianatu, Burkhardt Funk, Eromona Whiskey, David Taylor
{"title":"Identifying clinically relevant agranulocytosis in people registered on the UK clozapine Central Non-Rechallenge Database: retrospective cohort study.","authors":"Ebenezer Oloyede, Christian J Bachmann, Olubanke Dzahini, Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz, Shaurya Dev Singh, Kalliopi Vallianatu, Burkhardt Funk, Eromona Whiskey, David Taylor","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.104","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Clozapine is the most effective antipsychotic for treatment-resistant psychosis. However, clozapine is underutilised in part because of potential agranulocytosis. Accumulating evidence indicates that below-threshold haematological readings in isolation are not diagnostic of life-threatening clozapine-induced agranulocytosis (CIA).</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To examine the prevalence and timing of CIA using different diagnostic criteria and to explore demographic differences of CIA in patients registered on the UK Central Non-Rechallenge Database (CNRD).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We analysed data of all patients registered on the UK Clozaril<sup>®</sup> Patient Monitoring Service Central Non-Rechallenge Database (at least one absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < 1.5 × 10<sup>9</sup>/L and/or white blood cell count < 3.0 × 10<sup>9</sup>/L) between May 2000 and February 2021. We calculated prevalence rates of agranulocytosis using threshold-based and pattern-based criteria, stratified by demographic factors (gender, age and ethnicity). Differences in epidemiology based on rechallenge status and clozapine indication were explored. The proportion of patients who recorded agranulocytosis from a normal ANC was explored.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 3029 patients registered on the CNRD with 283 726 blood measurements, 593 (19.6%) were determined to have threshold-based agranulocytosis and 348 (11.4%) pattern-based agranulocytosis. In the total sample (75 533), the prevalence of threshold-based agranulocytosis and pattern-based agranulocytosis was 0.8% and 0.5%, respectively. The median time to threshold-based agranulocytosis was 32 weeks (IQR 184) and 15 (IQR 170) weeks for pattern-based agranulocytosis. Among age groups, the prevalence of pattern-based agranulocytosis and threshold-based agranulocytosis was highest in the >48 age group. Prevalence rates were greatest for White (18%) and male individuals (13%), and lowest for Black individuals (0.1%). The proportion of people who were determined to have pattern-based agranulocytosis without passing through neutropenia was 70%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Threshold-based definition of agranulocytosis may over-diagnose CIA. Monitoring schemes should take into consideration neutrophil patterns to correctly identify clinically relevant CIA. In marked contrast to previous studies, CIA occurred least in Black individuals and most in White individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"484-491"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11663468/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141987482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dyce Sombre - Psychiatry in history.","authors":"Chaitanya V Haldipur","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 5","pages":"507"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142806208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years: commentary, Prakash.","authors":"Om Prakash","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.73","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 5","pages":"511"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142806337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychiatry in children's literature: guess how much I hate you - Extra.","authors":"Frederick Arthur Jack Simon","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 5","pages":"509"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142806362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Apotychiaphobia: should there be a term for fear of miscarriage?","authors":"Ruth Oshikanlu, Babatunde A Gbolade","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.198","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not niche: eating disorders as an example in the dangers of over-specialisation: commentary, Downs.","authors":"James Downs","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.64","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 4","pages":"462-463"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142615157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dream Theater: <i>Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence</i> - Psychiatry in music.","authors":"Waldie E Hanser","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.89","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 4","pages":"423"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142615153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tomáš Formánek, Dzmitry Krupchanka, Benjamin I Perry, Karolína Mladá, Emanuele F Osimo, Jiří Masopust, Peter B Jones, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll
{"title":"Contribution of severe mental disorders to fatally harmful effects of physical disorders: national cohort study.","authors":"Tomáš Formánek, Dzmitry Krupchanka, Benjamin I Perry, Karolína Mladá, Emanuele F Osimo, Jiří Masopust, Peter B Jones, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.110","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>It remains unknown whether severe mental disorders contribute to fatally harmful effects of physical illness.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To investigate the risk of all-cause death and loss of life-years following the onset of a wide range of physical health conditions in people with severe mental disorders compared with matched counterparts who had only these physical health conditions, and to assess whether these associations can be fully explained by this patient group having more clinically recorded physical illness.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using Czech national in-patient register data, we identified individuals with 28 physical health conditions recorded between 1999 and 2017, separately for each condition. In these people, we identified individuals who had severe mental disorders recorded before the physical health condition and exactly matched them with up to five counterparts who had no recorded prior severe mental disorders. We estimated the risk of all-cause death and lost life-years following each of the physical health conditions in people with pre-existing severe mental disorders compared with matched counterparts without severe mental disorders.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>People with severe mental disorders had an elevated risk of all-cause death following the onset of 7 out of 9 broadly defined and 14 out of 19 specific physical health conditions. People with severe mental disorders lost additional life-years following the onset of 8 out 9 broadly defined and 13 out of 19 specific physical health conditions. The vast majority of results remained robust after considering the potentially confounding role of somatic multimorbidity and other clinical and sociodemographic factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A wide range of physical illnesses are more likely to result in all-cause death in people with pre-existing severe mental disorders. This premature mortality cannot be fully explained by having more clinically recorded physical illness, suggesting that physical disorders are more likely to be fatally harmful in this patient group.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"436-445"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11557285/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141900927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anya Ragnhildstveit, Tamsin J Ford, Sharon A S Neufeld
{"title":"Eating disorder service transitions: integrated models, knowledge gaps and opportunities, Ragnhildstveit et al.","authors":"Anya Ragnhildstveit, Tamsin J Ford, Sharon A S Neufeld","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.71","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 4","pages":"458-459"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142615154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}