Serious Mental Illness Tied To Twofold Increased Risk For Comorbid Physical Illness, Meta-Analysis Shows

Medscape (5/3, Bender, Subscription Publication) reports, “Serious mental illness (SMI), including bipolar disorder or schizophrenia spectrum disorders, is associated with a twofold increased risk for comorbid physical illness, results of a new meta-analysis showed.” Researchers “conducted a meta-analysis of 82 observational studies comprising 1.6 million individuals with SMI and 13.2 million control subjects to determine the risk for physical or psychiatric multimorbidity.”The results were published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

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