Contribution of severe mental disorders to fatally harmful effects of physical disorders: national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It remains unknown whether severe mental disorders contribute to fatally harmful effects of physical illness.

Aims

To investigate the risk of all-cause death and loss of life-years following the onset of a wide range of physical health conditions in people with severe mental disorders compared with matched counterparts who had only these physical health conditions, and to assess whether these associations can be fully explained by this patient group having more clinically recorded physical illness.

Method

Using Czech national in-patient register data, we identified individuals with 28 physical health conditions recorded between 1999 and 2017, separately for each condition. In these people, we identified individuals who had severe mental disorders recorded b

SUBMITTER: Formanek T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11557285 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature