Researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institute found out that mortality rate in patients suffering from schizophrenia is higher when the patients are not on medication as compared to when they are. Researchers from Germany the USA and Finland also joined the study which was published in the journal - World Psychiatry. Schizophrenic people have an average life expectancy of around 10 to 20 years and it has long been held that the cause is the long-term use of antipsychotic drugs. Results from earlier studies however indicated that the mortality rate for schizophrenic people that are on antipsychotic medication was 30-50 per