Excess mortality of mental illness

Excess mortality, mental illness and global burden of disease.

The epidemiology of excess mortality in people with mental illness.

OBJECTIVE to investigate the burden of excess mortality among people with mental illness in developed countries, how it is distributed, and whether it has changed over time. METHOD we conducted a systematic search of MEDLINE, restricting our attention to peer-reviewed studies and reviews published in English relating to mortality and mental illness. Because of the large number of studies that...

Why the excess mortality from psychiatric illness?

Ethnicity and excess mortality in severe mental illness: a cohort study

BACKGROUND Excess mortality in severe mental illness (defined here as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar affective disorders) is well described, but little is known about this inequality in ethnic minorities. We aimed to estimate excess mortality for people with severe mental illness for five ethnic groups (white British, black Caribbean, black African, south Asian, and Irish...

Excess mortality in severe mental illness: 10-year population-based cohort study in rural Ethiopia.

BACKGROUND Evidence on mortality in severe mental illness (SMI) comes primarily from clinical samples in high-income countries. AIMS To describe mortality in people with SMI among a population cohort from a low-income country. METHOD We followed-up 919 adults (from 68 378 screened) with SMI over 10 years. Standardised mortality ratios (SMR) and years of life lost (YLL) as a result of premat...