Why the study?
Is severe mental illness associated with increased prevalence, incidence, and mortality from cardiovascular disease compared to controls?
Is severe mental illness associated with increased prevalence, incidence, and mortality from cardiovascular disease compared to controls?
Severe mental illness is associated with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality, emphasizing the urgent need for aggressive CVD screening and risk factor management in this population.
SMI patients require enhanced CVD screening and risk management; confirms elevated risk while extending evidence of rising prevalence in recent studies.
Moreover, CVD prevalence (p=0.007), but not CVD incidence (p=0.21), increased in more recently conducted studies. This large-scale meta-analysis confirms that SMI patients have significantly increased risk of CVD and CVD-related mortality, and that elevated body mass index, antipsychotic use, and CVD screening and management require urgent clinical attention.
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