A large review article recently published in Nature has revealed some perhaps long-suspected information about people living with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder who tend to relapse.

The authors’ methods in this study tried something a little different. Instead of relying on insurance claims data or only using small populations, they searched a system of large electronic health records (EHRs) to analyze the relationships between relapse episodes and characteristics such as race, disease, insurance status, and more. The data, which included 8119 patients, came from October 15, 2016, to December 31, 2021, and focused on patients who received care for at least 12 months.

What they defined as relapse was an emergency room visit or an inpatient hospitalization for their condition. Of the total patients in the study, 30.52........

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