The temporal relationship between severe mental illness diagnosis and chronic physical comorbidity: a UK primary care cohort study of disease burden over 10 years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite increased rates of physical health problems in people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychotic illnesses, the temporal relationship between physical disease acquisition and diagnosis of a severe mental illness remains unclear. We aimed to determine the cumulative prevalence of 24 chronic physical conditions in people with severe mental illness from 5 years before to 5 years after their diagnosis.

Methods

In this cohort study, we used the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) to identify patients aged 18-100 years who were diagnosed with severe mental illness between Jan 1, 2000, and Dec 31, 2018. Each patient with severe mental illness was matched with up to four individuals in the CPRD without severe mental illness by sex, 5-year

SUBMITTER: Launders N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9630158 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature