Healio (4/20, Firment) reported, “Young people with schizophrenia had elevated risk for sudden cardiac death, and biopsychosocial factors related to social isolation impacted the cardiac risk factor burden in individuals with schizophrenia, researchers” concluded in a study also revealing that “among young people with sudden cardiac death who were referred for autopsy, individuals with schizophrenia were more likely to have nonischemic cardiomyopathy compared with individuals without schizophrenia.” The findings of the 579-individual postmortem study were published online in the journal JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.
Related Links:
— “Schizophrenic individuals have increased risk for sudden cardiac death “Hunter Firment, Healio, April 20, 2023