Dying Too Soon: Excess Mortality in Severe Mental Illness

Dying Too Soon: Excess Mortality in Severe Mental Illness

Aims: We aimed to identify baseline predictors of mortality in patients with a severe mental illness (SMI) over a 6-year period and to describe mortality rates as standardised mortality ratios (SMRs). We hypothesised that cardiovascular diseases, older age, cigarette smoking, more severe psychiatric...

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Main Authors: Liselotte D. de Mooij, Martijn Kikkert, Jan Theunissen, Aartjan T.F. Beekman, Lieuwe de Haan, Pim W.R.A. Duurkoop, Henricus L. Van, Jack J.M. Dekker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
psychoses
cardiovascular disease
standardised mortality ratios
smoking
metabolic syndrome
life expectancy
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00855/full

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