Importance It is clear that mental disorders in treatment settings are associated with a higher
incidence of chronic physical conditions, but whether this is true of mental disorders in the …

Importance Excess risk of physical disease and mortality has been observed among
individuals with psychiatric conditions, suggesting that ameliorating mental disorders might …

Objective. To examine the relative and combined impact of depressive and chronic physical
conditions on functional status and health-care use in the general population. Method …

Background People with comorbid mental and physical illness (PI) experience worse health,
inadequate care and increased mortality relative to those without mental illness (MI). The …

OBJECTIVE: To quantify the misclassification bias of self-reported somatic diseases and its
impact on the estimation of comorbidity with mental disorders. STUDY DESIGN AND …

Purpose The interaction between physical and mental health is complex. In this paper we
aim to provide an overview of the main components of this relationship and to identify how …

Objectives To examine the association between mental illness and chronic physical
conditions in older adults and investigate whether co‐occurring substance use disorders …

Background Despite increased rates of physical health problems in people with
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychotic illnesses, the temporal relationship …

Background We aimed to identify specific patterns of physical multimorbidity, defined as the
presence of two or more physical long-term conditions, and to examine the extent to which …

BackgroundPhysical morbidity is a potent risk factor for depression onset and clearly
increases with age, yet prior research has often found depressive disorders to decrease with …