http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22411641

Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2012 Mar;73(3):126-7.

Improving the life expectancy of people with serious mental illness.

Chang CK.

Source

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).

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.