WPA Educational Programme on Depressive Disorders
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Physical illness in patients with severe mental disorders. I. Prevalence, impact of medications and disparities in health care WPA EDUCATIONAL MODULE
World Psychiatry 10:1 February 2011 A number of reviews and studies have shown that people with severe mental illness (SMI), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder and major depressive disorder, have an excess mortality, being two or three times as high as that in the general population (1-21). This mortality gap, which translates to a 13-30 year shortened life expe...
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