Heart Disease A ‘Silent Killer’ In Patients With Severe Mental Illness
By Linda on Nov 19, 2009 in Infections | comments(0)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170934.php
A large new study confirms that people with severe mental disorders – such as schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders – are 25 percent to 40 percent more prone to die from heart disease than people without mental illness are.
Moreover, smoking and physical inactivity – behaviors that individuals potentially can change – significantly contribute to this increased risk of death, found researchers led by Amy Kilbourne, Ph.D. Continued
