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Causes of the excess mortality of schizophrenia
The British Journal of Psychiatry · 2000 · Vol. 177(3) · pp. 212–217
Steve Brown✉(University of Southampton)Hazel Inskip(Medical Research Council)B. M. Barraclough(University of Southampton)
Abstract
Some of the excess mortality of schizophrenia could be lessened by reducing patients' smoking and exposure to other environmental risk factors and by improving the management of medical disease, mood disturbance and psychosis.
Schizophrenia research and treatmentMental Health Treatment and AccessMental Health and PsychiatrySchizophrenia (object-oriented programming)Excess mortalityEnvironmental sciencePsychologyPsychiatryMedicineEnvironmental healthPopulation
MeSH terms
AdolescentAdultAgedCause of DeathEnglandFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedSchizophreniaSuicideCohort StudiesHealth BehaviorAge Distribution
Funding
- University of Southampton
- Medical Research Council
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