Schizophrenia is often referred to as one of the most severe mental disorders, primarily
because of the very high mortality rates of those with the disorder. This article reviews the …

Life expectancy and cardiovascular mortality in persons with... : Current Opinion in
Psychiatry Life expectancy and cardiovascular mortality in persons with schizophrenia …

Objective Excess mortality from diseases and medical conditions (natural death) in persons
with psychiatric disorders has been extensively reported. Even in the Nordic countries with …

Background Mental disorders are associated with premature mortality. There is increasing
research examining life expectancy and years-of-potential-life-lost (YPLL) to quantify the …

The lives of persons living with mental illness are affected by psychological, biological,
social, economic, and environmental factors over the life course. It is therefore unlikely that …

Introduction: People with severe mental illness have increased risk for premature mortality
and thus a shorter life expectancy. Relative death rates are used to show the excess …

Patients with schizophrenia could have a higher risk of mortality. We compared the risk of
mortality and the years of potential life lost (YPLL) associated with various causes of death …

Psychiatric deinstitutionalization (PDI) processes aim to transform long-term psychiatric care
by closing or reducing psychiatric hospitals, reallocating beds, and establishing …

Background The absence of economic evidence hinders current reforms of hospital-based
mental health systems in central and eastern Europe. We aimed to assess the cost …

Background Mortality among patients with mental disorders is higher than in general
population. By using national longitudinal registers, we studied mortality changes and …