{
  "id": 9346130,
  "title": "People with similar mental health conditions tend to end up together, raising risk within families",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/people-with-similar-mental-health-conditions-tend-to-end-up-together",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-23T13:30:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-people-similar-mental-health-conditions.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The old saying that birds of a feather flock together may hold even when people with psychiatric illnesses choose their partners. A recent JAMA Psychiatry study investigated whether parents were more likely to share mental and physical health conditions and how this pattern of pairing affects disease risk.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}