Why the excess mortality from psychiatric illness?

Why the excess mortality from psychiatric illness?

Excess cancer mortality in psychiatric patients.

OBJECTIVES There are conflicting data on cancer incidence and mortality in psychiatric patients, although most studies suggest that while cancer mortality is higher, incidence is no different from that in the general population. Different methodologies and outcomes may account for some of the conflicting results. We investigated the association between mental illness and cancer incidence, first...

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...

Excess mortality, mental illness and global burden of disease.

Excess mortality from chronic physical disease in psychiatric patients-the forgotten problem.

Physical and psychiatric symptoms often occur together. In both hospital and primary care the presence of one leads to a worse outcome in the other.' For instance, physical illness has a large, immediate effect on depressive symptoms, while further depressive symptoms are associated with increased subsequent physical morbidity. Among all outcomes, it is the increase in mortality that is of most...