Research Paper Volume 15, Issue 2 pp 421—440

Lithium treatment extends human lifespan: findings from the UK Biobank

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Figure 1. Individuals with F3X diagnoses have shorter lifespan. (A) Kaplan-Meier curve of survival probability in individuals with or without ICD10-defined F3X affective disorders diagnoses in NHS clinical records since 01.01.1990. Suicides are excluded from the dataset; p-value of the logrank test is reported. (B) Forest Plot of Cox proportional hazard multivariable modeling on overall survival in individuals with or without ICD10-defined F3X affective disorders diagnoses in NHS clinical records since 01.01.1990. Suicides are excluded from the dataset. Abbreviations: DVT: deep vein thrombosis; BMI: body mass index.