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The Urgent Need for Monitoring and Intervention to Reduce Metabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Henry A. Nasrallah
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Serious mental illness is associated with a significant reduction in life expectancy of ≤30 years. Among patients with schizophrenia, mortality due to coronary heart disease is ∼50% higher than that of the general population.

Patients with schizophrenia have substantially higher rates of cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, high cholesterol, hypertension, physical inactivity, obesity/overweight, and diabetes) than the general population. Approximately 75% of individuals with schizophrenia smoke compared to ∼25% of the general population. Patients with schizophrenia also have lipid profiles that are significantly worse than those of individuals in the general population.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 13 , supplement S10: Elevating the Standard of Care in the Management of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Mental Illness , June 2008 , pp. 5 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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