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Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov and National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Correspondence: Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, National Centre for Register-Based Research, Taasingegade 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel: +45 89426819; e-mail: cbp{at}ncrr.au.dk
Declaration of interest The study was supported by the Theodore and Vada Stanley Foundation.
Background Although a family history of schizophrenia is the strongest individual risk factor for schizophrenia, environmental factors related to urbanicity may contribute to a substantial proportion of the population occurrence of the disease.
Aims This study replicates previous findings in four mutually exclusive Danish study populations, including out-patient information, ICD-10 diagnoses of schizophrenia, and a broader adjustment for mental illness in family members.
Method We established a population-based cohort of 2.66 million Danish people using data from the Civil Registration System linked with the Psychiatric Case Register.
Results Overall, 10 264 persons developed schizophrenia during the 50.7 million person-years of follow-up. The risk of schizophrenia was increased by urbanicity of place of birth and by family history of schizophrenia or other mental disorders.
Conclusions Urban-rural differences of schizophrenia risk were replicated and could not be associated with the potential sources of bias we assessed. Environmental factors underlying the effect of place of birth are major determinants of schizophrenia occurrence at the population level, although the effect of family history is the strongest at the individual level.
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