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Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization (2024)


Although poverty and mental illness are strongly correlated, it is unclear whether they are causally linked. Using UK Biobank and Psychiatric Genomic Consortium data, Marchi et al. provide evidence of a causal relationship between poverty and some mental illnesses.

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