Healio (8/18, Gramigna) reports, “Patients hospitalized with serious mental illness had a cardiometabolic profile that conferred increased risk for diabetes and hypertension-related mortality,” researchers concluded in a study that “used a form of propensity score matching called entropy balancing to compare cardiometabolic health of a sample of the general population from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey…datasets with that of inpatients hospitalized in an urban psychiatric hospital in Texas.” The study team “analyzed data via independent linear regression models, with outcome variables including blood pressure, blood glucose, triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein…ratio, total cholesterol and BMI.” The findings of the “observational study” were published online ahead of print in the October issue of the journal Psychiatry Research.
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— “Inpatients with severe mental illness at increased risk for diabetes, hypertension “Joe Gramigna, Healio, August 18, 2021