Citation

Chang CK. Br. J. Hosp. Med. (MA Health) 2012; 73(3): 126-127.

Affiliation

Senior Researcher Section of Epidemiology Health Service and Population Research Department Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London London SE5 8AF (chin-kuo.chang@kcl.ac.uk).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, M A Healthcare)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22411641

Abstract

People with diagnoses of serious mental illness (including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and sometimes depressive psychosis) have higher risks of premature mortality from various causes, not just as a result of suicide but also from physical illnesses commonly found in the general population (Robson and Gray, 2007). They face remarkably elevated all-cause mortality in all age groups and thus a shorter longevity (Laursen et al, 2007; Chang et al, 2010, 2011; Piatt et al, 2010).

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