The epidemiology of excess mortality in people with mental illness.

Excess mortality, mental illness and global burden of disease.

The gap in life expectancy from preventable physical illness in psychiatric patients in Western Australia: retrospective analysis of population based registers

OBJECTIVE To examine the mortality experience of psychiatric patients in Western Australia compared with the general population. DESIGN Population based study. SETTING Western Australia, 1985-2005. PARTICIPANTS Psychiatric patients (292,585) registered with mental health services in Western Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Trends in life expectancy for psychiatric patients compared with...

Death rate from ischaemic heart disease in Western Australian psychiatric patients 1980-1998.

BACKGROUND People with mental illness suffer excess mortality due to physical illnesses. AIMS To investigate the association between mental illness and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) hospital admissions, revascularisation procedures and deaths. METHOD A population-based record-linkage study of 210 129 users of mental health services in Western Australia during 1980-1998. IHD mortality rates,...

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...

O20: The Benefits of Increased Physical Activity and Higher Cardiorespiratory Fitness in People Living with Mental Health Disorders, with Specific Emphasis on Anxiety Disorders

Evidence has been accumulating for some time regarding the reduced life-expectancy experienced by people living with a mental illness. In developed world settings this can involve a two-decade reduction in life expectancy, whilst in the developing world the gap may be as high as thirty years. Whilst genetic risk factors and suicide contribute to this ‘scandal of premature mortality’...