Health behaviours and telomere biology in severe mental disorders
Vid Mlakar, Marta Di Forti, Els F Halff, Deepak P Srivastava, Ibrahim Akkouh, Srdjan Djurovic, Carmen Martin-Ruiz, Daniel S Quintana, Viktoria Birkenæs, Nils Eiel Steen, Monica B E G Ormerod, Ole A Andreassen, Monica Aas · 2026
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Vid Mlakar and co-authors present a 2026 study of daily habits and cell aging marks in severe mental illness. Telomeres, the caps on gene strands, shrink with cell age and run short in such illness. The team asked whether habits move that gauge in 410 patients in a Norwegian study, split between psychosis and mood groups. Six habit fields were polled: food, exercise, smoke, drink, drugs, and coffee.
Patients with an overall unhealthy habit set held shorter telomeres than the healthy set. Each added bad habit stacked the shrink further. The link held after age, trauma, schooling, and drug dose were weighed. Habits are one lever patients can pull themselves. Cell age may be a gauge that lifestyle care can move.
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| CREATOR | Vid Mlakar, Marta Di Forti, Els F Halff, Deepak P Srivastava, Ibrahim Akkouh, Srdjan Djurovic, Carmen Martin-Ruiz, Daniel S Quintana, Viktoria Birkenæs, Nils Eiel Steen, Monica B E G Ormerod, Ole A Andreassen, Monica Aas |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |