Physical Health

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Psychological distress is associated with increased mortality from several major causes in a dose-response pattern, even at low levels of distress

This study, which was published in the BMJ in 2012, set out to quantify the link between lower, subclinically symptomatic, levels of psychological distress and cause-mortality in a large scale, population based study. The study comprised 68,222 people from general population samples of adults aged 35 years and over, free of cardiovascular disease and cancer,…

7th February 20217th February 2021Immo Weichert

Patients with mental illness have up to 20 years less life expectancy

This is a pivotal study which was published in 2011. The authors evaluated trends in health outcomes of people with seriousmental disorders. They examined nationwide 5-year consecutive cohorts ofpeople admitted to hospital for mental disorders in Denmark,Finland and Sweden in 1987–2006. People with severe mental illness who were admitted to hospital had a two –…