21/04/2022
More research is needed to learn why people with severe mental illness have a higher risk of death from heart problems and why People with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other severe mental illnesses are at increased risk of death from heart problems, a large research review finds.
"Our systematic review and meta-analysis of over 100 studies has confirmed a strong association between severe mental illness and cardiovascular disease which became stronger in the 1990s and 2000s," said study author Amanda Lambert, of the University of Birmingham in England, and her colleagues.
For both disorders, the risk of death from heart problems increased between the 1970s and the 2000s, according to the findings.
