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Excess early mortality in schizophrenia.
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Schizophrenia is often referred to as one of the most severe mental disorders, primarily because of the very high mortality rates of those with the disorder. This article reviews the literature on excess early mortality in persons with schizophrenia and suggests reasons for the high mortality as well as possible ways to reduce it. Persons with schizophrenia have an exceptionally short life expectancy. High mortality is found in all age groups, resulting in a life expectancy of approximately 20 years below that of the general population. Evidence suggests that persons with schizophrenia may not have seen the same improvement in life expectancy as the general population during the past decades. Thus, the mortality gap not only persists but may actually have increased. The most urgent research agenda concerns primary candidates for modifiable risk factors contributing to this excess mortality, i.e., side effects of treatment and lifestyle factors, as well as sufficient prevention and treatment of physical comorbidity.
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“Note that large differences exist between the effects achieved in the studies (Bonfioli et al. 2012, Caemmerer et al. 2012).”
- Also stated in: § Diet and Weight · plain
“Large differences exist between the effects achieved in the studies.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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- Disputedcites Bonfioli et al. 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In Results (‘Results for all interventions’; page unavailable), the paper says its test failed to suggest substantial heterogeneity in effects. Its ‘Heterogeneity of studies’ section describes differences in samples and interventions, but says the analysis did not detect statistically significant heterogeneity. Those differences do not establish the claimed large differences between effects. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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The Results (Co-primary Outcomes; page unavailable) report substantial between-study heterogeneity for BMI effects (I²=75%). The Results (Secondary Outcomes; page unavailable) also report I² values above 50% for several outcomes, supporting the statement that effects differed substantially across studies. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“A recent study from the United Kingdom (Chang et al. 2011) found that life expectancy was reduced by 14.6 years among persons with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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- Partly supportedcites Chang et al. 2011 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report a 14.6-year reduction in life expectancy at birth for men with schizophrenia compared with national norms. The citing sentence omits that this figure applies to men; the reported reduction for women with schizophrenia was 9.8 years. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“A Welsh study found that persons admitted with schizophrenia to an asylum from 1875 to 1924 died 10.8 years earlier than the general population (Healy et al. 2012).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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- Partly supportedcites Healy et al. 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Population section identifies a North Wales asylum cohort admitted from 1875 to 1924. Results > Years of life lost reports 10.8 years lost for patients with schizophrenia whose deaths were confirmed, but 8.0 years when discharged patients were included. The citing sentence omits that qualification and presents 10.8 years as the figure for everyone admitted with schizophrenia. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“However, some studies did not find a reduction in cardiovascular drug use (Desai et al. 2002, Plomondon et al. 2007).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Desai et al. 2002 source
- Partly supportedcites Plomondon et al. 2007 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report similar discharge prescription rates for aspirin, ACE-inhibitors/ARBs, and β-blockers in patients with and without severe mental illness. Schizophrenia was included in the severe-mental-illness group, but the reported medication comparison was for the pooled group, not for patients with schizophrenia separately. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“In the British study, an MRR of 2 to 3 was found.”
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The Results (All cause mortality) report an all-cause standardised mortality ratio of 289, or 2.89 times the expected mortality in England and Wales. That supports the citing sentence’s approximate ratio of 2 to 3, although the source calls its measure an SMR rather than an MRR. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Underdiagnosis of somatic disorders in schizophrenic patients has been described in many other studies (Frayne et al. 2005, Laursen et al. 2009, Osborn et al. 2008).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Frayne et al. 2005 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Laursen et al. 2009 source
- Partly supportedcites Osborn et al. 2008 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (Quality and variability of published studies; page unavailable) says people with severe mental illness may previously have been less likely to receive diabetes screening, which could underestimate recorded diabetes prevalence. That supports a possible detection gap, but not the broader claim that many studies have described underdiagnosis of somatic disorders specifically in patients with schizophrenia. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Moderate evidence suggests that it is possible to counteract weight loss or to prevent weight increases of 3.12 kg on average (or 0.94 kg/m 2 measured as BMI) in obese mentally ill people undergoing antipsychotic treatment.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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- Partly supportedcites Bonfioli et al. 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports that lifestyle interventions reduced BMI by 0.98 kg/m², corresponding to 3.12% of initial weight—not 0.94 kg/m² or 3.12 kg. The Results describe participants taking antipsychotics, but the studies included normal-weight and overweight participants as well as obese participants. The paper reports reducing weight, not counteracting weight loss. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Partly supportedcites Caemmerer et al. 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (Co-primary Outcomes; page not provided) report 3.12 kg less weight and 0.94 kg/m² less BMI with non-pharmacological interventions than with controls. The paper describes preventing or reducing weight gain, not “counteracting weight loss.” The claim also limits the finding to obese people, whereas the pooled groups’ mean BMIs were below the obesity threshold and the Discussion says significant benefits were found only in outpatient trials. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“No studies have compared smoking cessation programs with no intervention, but one study has compared a specialized smoking cessation program for patients with schizophrenia with an ordinary program developed for people in the general population and found no differences in cessation rates between the two programs (Baker et al. 2006).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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- Partly supportedcites Baker et al. 2006 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Study Design section says the trial compared a smoking cessation intervention for people with psychotic disorders against treatment as usual plus smoking-cessation booklets—not an ordinary cessation program developed for the general population. Overall Changes in Smoking reports no significant difference in abstinence rates between the randomized groups at 3, 6, or 12 months, supporting only the cessation-rate portion of the claim. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Daumit et al. (2008) analyzed changes in 10-year coronary heart disease risk estimates during the 18-month CATIE trial by antipsychotic treatment, and they found that treatment with olanzapine and quetiapine was associated with a higher long-term risk of cardiovascular disease than was treatment with perphenazin, risperidone, and ziprasidone.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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- Supportedcites Daumit et al. 2008 source
The Results (§3.2) report that estimated 10-year coronary heart disease risk increased with olanzapine and quetiapine and decreased with perphenazine, risperidone, and ziprasidone. These are risk estimates, not observed cardiovascular events; the paper reports a statistically significant individual comparison only between olanzapine and risperidone. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“A study in age-dependent cognitive tests found a discrepancy of 20 years between persons with schizophrenia and the general population (Fernandez-Egea et al. 2011), in accordance with the 20 years' shorter life expectancy.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Accelerated Aging
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- Could not verifycites Fernandez-Egea et al. 2011 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction describes a hypothesis of accelerated aging in schizophrenia, but the Methods and Results examine testosterone activity, not age-dependent cognitive tests. Neither the supplied passages nor searches for cognitive tests and a 20-year difference found the claimed comparison with the general population in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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“Previous studies indicate that excess mortality (whether caused by disease or external factors) peaks during the first year after patients are discharged from the hospital (Nordentoft et al. 2013), which has been previously documented for suicide (Nordentoft et al. 2004;Osby et al. 2000Osby et al. , 2001)).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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The Discussion (page unavailable in our copy) explicitly states that excess mortality from both diseases and external causes peaks during the first year after discharge. The Results (page unavailable) also report higher observed-to-expected mortality ratios in the first year than in later years for both categories. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“A recent study using information from the entire population in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland calculated life expectancy among the general population and compared it to persons with a psychiatric hospital admission for a diagnosis of schizophrenia and found life expectancies to be 15.6 to 20 years shorter in this patient group in these three countries”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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- Not matchedcites Laursen et al. 2013b
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“New nationwide Danish data show that obesity, smoking, unhealthy diet, and sedentary behavior are seen approximately twice as frequently in people who self-report that they have a mental illness as compared with the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHAT EXISTING KNOWLEDGE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? ARE CLINICAL GUIDELINES REQUIRED?
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“Our results indicate that people with mental illness have the same interest as control groups do in changing their lifestyle with regard to smoking, diet, and physical activity.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Barriers and Motivation for Lifestyle Changes
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“Evidence suggests that persons with schizophrenia may not have seen the same improvement in life expectancy as the general population during the past decades.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Abstract
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“Persons with schizophrenia have an exceptionally short life expectancy.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Abstract
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“Another Finnish study that included only persons with schizophrenia older than 65 found a SMR of 2.69 (Talaslahti et al. 2012).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Talaslahti et al. 2012 source
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“The extremely high MRR in the young age groups should be interpreted with caution because of the very low number of deaths in the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > EXTENT OF THE EXCESS MORTALITY How to Measure Mortality
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“A Finnish study found life expectancy to be 10 to 15 years shorter for persons with a diagnosis in the schizophrenia spectrum (Westman et al. 2011).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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- Not matchedcites Westman et al. 2011
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“Since the time that Odegard (1951) and Alstr öm (1942) conducted studies, the MRR (or SMR) between persons with schizophrenia and the general population has been shown to decrease with increasing age.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > EXTENT OF THE EXCESS MORTALITY How to Measure Mortality
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- Not matchedcites Odegard (1951)
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“The SMR in persons with schizophrenia was found to be 1.51, i.e., the mortality rate was on average 51% higher than that of the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Brown 1997 source
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“In a study from Sweden (Osby et al. 2000), the excess mortality in patients who had been admitted with schizophrenia was 2.8 for men and 2.4 for women.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Osby et al. 2000 source
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“A study focusing on patients with schizophrenia and substance abuse, i.e., a dual diagnosis (Schmidt et al. 2011), found that age at death for these patients was particularly low (49 years).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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“In a Finnish study ( Joukamaa et al. 2001), the excess mortality in schizophrenic patients was 3.3 for men and 2.3 for women.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“The explanation for the effect modification by age is that the mortality in the general population is very low in the young age groups.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > EXTENT OF THE EXCESS MORTALITY How to Measure Mortality
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“A Danish study used age at death among persons with schizophrenia as an indication of length of life expectancy compared to the general population and found that a person with schizophrenia died 11.2 years earlier than the general population (Nielsen et al. 2013b).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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“For example, the lower MRRs among the 18-to 19-year-olds (compared to the 20-to 36-year-olds) probably appears because young men from the general population are more often involved in traffic accidents than are young men with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > EXTENT OF THE EXCESS MORTALITY How to Measure Mortality
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“Another interesting result was that the SMRs increased significantly during three recent decades, i.e., the seventies, eighties, and nineties; from 1.84, to 2.98, to 3.20, respectively.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Saha et al. 2007 source
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“However, mounting evidence suggests that most of the excess mortality is explained by natural causes of death (Laursen 2011)”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INTRODUCTION
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“Notably, the SMR for cancer was only 1.37, which has also been observed in other studies (Laursen et al. 2007;Mortensen & Juel 1990, 1993).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“A study from Israel found life expectancy to be 12 years lower among persons with schizophrenia (Kodesh et al. 2012)”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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“An even shorter life expectancy was found during 11 years of follow-up in a Finnish study; life expectancy at age 20 was found to be 25 years shorter in 1996 and 22.5 years shorter in 2006 (Tiihonen et al. 2009).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Tiihonen et al. 2009 source
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“The study suggests that the overall improvement in cardiovascular treatment and lifestyle experienced by the general population has not been experienced by persons with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“The same method was used in a study from Sweden that found that persons with schizophrenia died 15 years (men) and 12 years (women) earlier than the general population (Crump et al. 2013).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Crump et al. 2013 source
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“With that caution in mind, studies indicate that the lives of persons with schizophrenia are between 10 and 25 years shorter than those of the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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“Furthermore, a higher prevalence of chronic medical conditions among patients with psychotic disorders has been shown in the United States (Carney et al. 2006, Carney & Jones 2006).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“A consistent finding is the negative relationship between schizophrenia and autoimmune diseases.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Rheumatoid arthritis in particular has been shown to have a negative correlation with schizophrenia (Eaton et al. 1992(Eaton et al. , 2006;;Oken & Schulzer 1999).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“A Danish study showed that rheumatoid arthritis was the only somatic disorder (out of 19 common chronic somatic disorders) with a lower rate in persons with schizophrenia (Laursen et al. 2011)”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Evidence has suggested that antipsychotics are responsible for some of the excess mortality among persons with schizophrenia, especially since the introduction in the late 1990s of second-generation antipsychotics (Saha et al. 2007).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“Finally, a study from Africa found higher mortality among all patients at a Nigerian psychiatric hospital (Abiodun 1988).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“In contrast, a study from Finland (Westman et al. 2011) found that the difference in mortality among women with schizophrenia compared to the general population has diminished during recent years.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“and another Danish study also found that individuals with schizophrenia had a highly reduced risk for being admitted to a hospital with rheumatoid arthritis [odds ratio 0.44 (CI 0.24-0.81)].”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“A study from Denmark (Laursen et al. 2013a) also found reduced use of nearly all cardiac drugs.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“They found that comorbid somatic disorders, e.g., diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, were underdiagnosed and undertreated in the patients with co-occurring schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“A Danish study showed excess incidence in persons with schizophrenia in all but one of the somatic disorders from the Charlson index (Laursen et al. 2011)”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“In conclusion, the mortality among persons with schizophrenia is between two and three times higher than that of the general population when all age groups are included.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“Studies from Australia and Canada also report higher levels of somatic admissions in individuals with schizophrenia compared to the general population (Kisely et al. 2007, Lawrence et al. 2003).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“However, no evidence suggested that the risk varied by type of antipsychotic drugs.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Raedler 2010 source
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“Several studies have found that risk factors for cardiovascular disorders were more common in patients with severe mental disorders (Birkenaes et al. 2007, Newcomer & Hennekens 2007) than in patients without such disorders.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Antipsychotic medicine may have negative side effects.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHY THE EXCESS EARLY MORTALITY?
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“The extent of heavy smoking (more than 15 cigarettes daily) among people with long-lasting mental disorder was 25.9% versus 10.1% for those without such disorder.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“However, 38% of participants were excluded from the study because they had less than 50% attendance.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Physical activity.
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“However, weight management programs have proven to be effective in preventing weight increase (or weight loss) during treatment with antipsychotic medication.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“Goff et al. (2005) compared patients with schizophrenia included in the Clinical Trials of Antipsychotic Treatment Effectiveness (CATIE) study with matched controls and found a higher risk of cardiovascular disease among the patients.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“In a recent meta-analysis based on FDA data from placebo-controlled studies, the investigators found, contrary to their expectation, that antipsychotic medication did not increase the risk of death from diseases and medical conditions (Khan et al. 2013).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“In a systematic review, Compton et al. (2006) concluded that people with mental disorders belonging to different diagnostic groups in the United States were twice as likely to be smokers.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Beebe et al. (2005) found a nonsignificant decline of 1.27 kg/m 2 in body mass index (BMI) in the training group versus 0.14 kg/m 2 in the control group.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Physical activity.
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“A Cochrane review based on 11 trials including 685 daily smokers with schizophrenia (Tsoi et al. 2013) concluded that bupropion improved the chances of quitting smoking by 2.8 fold (95% CI: 1.02-7.58).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“surveys indicate that smoking occurs more frequently among people with schizophrenia than in the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“One of the risk factors most likely to contribute substantially to reduced life expectancy in schizophrenia is smoking.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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In the paper
“Meta-analyses that were based on more sophisticated statistical methods and included large long-term follow-up studies found lower figures (Bostwick & Pankratz 2000, Inskip et al. 1998, Palmer et al. 2005).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“Smoking cessation programs and nicotine substitution seem to support smoking cessation among people with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“A large study from Spain found that 55% of nearly 2,000 outpatients with schizophrenia were smokers (Bobes et al. 2010).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Another Danish survey carried out among users of drop-in centers or institutions for people who were homeless showed that 80% of people with mental disorders in this population were daily smokers (Pedersen et al. 2012).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Skrinar et al. (2005) found a nonsignificant decline in BMI of 0.7 kg/m 2 versus an increase of 0.5 kg/m 2 in the control group.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Physical activity.
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“Data also indicate that it is possible to maintain a weight loss after completion of the intervention since the achieved weight loss is still significant after 3.6 months.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“A modest dropout rate is found in the lifestyle intervention groups that focus on weight loss or weight stability compared with the control groups (15% versus 17%).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“In the American CATIE study, 58% of the included patients with schizophrenia were smokers (Daumit 2008).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Thus, only weak evidence supports the theory that participation in training programs will lead to weight loss among people suffering from schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Physical activity.
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“Laursen et al. (2005) have documented an excess mortality in the parents of patients with schizophrenia, a finding that could suggest both shared environmental and genetic factors but may also reflect an impact of the stress associated with caring for a severely ill family member.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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In the paper
“In addition to the effect on weight, significant changes have been found in other clinically relevant somatic risk factors, including the levels of body fat percentage, fasting plasma glucose, and blood fat.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and Weight
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In the paper
“Shared environmental risk factors affecting fetal development may also contribute to the excess mortality, as fetal growth restriction has been associated with both schizophrenia (Nielsen et al. 2013a) and multiple somatic health outcomes (Risnes et al. 2011).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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In the paper
“The general socioeconomic background is also strongly related to mortality gradients, even in Scandinavian countries with relatively modest socioeconomic differences and universal access to free health care (Diderichsen et al. 2012).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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In the paper
“We find moderate evidence that it is possible to take actions leading to weight loss or prevention of weight increases of an average of 3.12 kg or a BMI equaling 0.94 kg/m 2 in obese mentally ill people undergoing antipsychotic treatment.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and Weight
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In the paper
“The co-occurrence of deliberate self-harm increased the risk approximately twofold (Nordentoft et al. 2011).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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In the paper
“The European guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular disease primarily target older people because individuals under the age of 50 have a very low risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (Perk et al. 2012).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Accelerated Aging
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“If behavioral mood management therapy is included, smoking cessation counseling increases the chance of smoking cessation by approximately 1.5 times compared with no counseling.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
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In the paper
“There seems to be a historical parallel between now and 70 years ago, when the documentation of excess mortality from tuberculosis among psychiatric patients (Alstrøm 1942) helped introduce specific interventions and treatment facilities that contributed to the reduction of this major source of excess mortality.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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“Moderate evidence also suggests that counseling to help quit smoking works for people with previous or ongoing depression.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
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In the paper
“In an analysis of the absolute risk of suicide in a total national cohort of 176,347 individuals, who were followed from first psychiatric contact up to 36 years after first psychiatric contact, Nordentoft et al. (2011) found the absolute risk of suicide in schizophrenia to be 6.55% (95% CI: 5.85-7.34)among men and 4.91% (95% CI: 4.03-5.98)among women.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“The steepest increase in suicide risk occurs during the first few years after initial contact with mental health services; thus, early intensive intervention initiatives are needed.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“It is beyond doubt that the risk of suicide is high in schizophrenia, and suicide preventive measures should be a mandatory part of treatment programs (Hawton & Saunders 2009).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“This interpretation is supported by studies documenting that patients with psychiatric disorders receive less treatment for physical conditions than do people without psychiatric disorders (Kisely et al. 2009, Laursen et al. 2009, Lawrence et al. 2000).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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“Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in schizophrenia often occur before age 50.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Accelerated Aging
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“It is also evident that a history of deliberate self-harm markedly increases the risk of suicide in schizophrenia and other diagnostic groups (Nordentoft et al. 2011).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“We find a modest dropout rate in the lifestyle interventions that focus on weight loss or weight stability compared with the control groups (15% versus 17%).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and Weight
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“It is well known that the excess risk of suicide contributes to the shorter life expectancy in patients with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
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“Some data also indicate that it is possible for participants to maintain a weight loss after completion of the intervention since the achieved weight loss was still significant after 3.6 months.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and Weight
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“Not only do persons with schizophrenia have a short life expectancy, but evidence also suggests that they may not have experienced the same improvement in life expectancy as the general population has during the past decades.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
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“Schizophrenia is often referred to as one of the most severe mental disorders, primarily because of the very high mortality rates of those with the disorder.”
- Also stated in: § INTRODUCTION · hedged
“the data nevertheless indicate that schizophrenia is one of the most severe and disabling disorders worldwide.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Abstract
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Salomon et al. 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (page not provided) identify acute schizophrenia as one of the health states with the highest disability weights, supporting the severity aspect of the claim. They do not say that schizophrenia has very high mortality rates or that mortality is the primary reason for its severity; the paper’s mortality comparison concerns disability weights generally. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“The same widening of the mortality gap was found in another Danish study (Nielsen et al. 2013b) and in a study from the United Kingdom (Brown et al. 2010).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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- Not matchedcites Nielsen et al. 2013b
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The Results (Time trends in mortality; page unavailable) show a rise in cardiovascular mortality relative to the general population, but the trend was of borderline statistical significance. The all-cause mortality ratio changed only slightly and not significantly (P=0.6), so the paper does not establish the unqualified widening of the mortality gap attributed to the UK study. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“A systematic review by Saha et al. (2005) found a lifetime morbidity risk of 7.2 per 1,000 persons; the 10% and 90% quantiles were 3.1 and 27.1, respectively.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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- Supportedcites Saha et al. 2005 source
The Results section (“The Distribution of Prevalence Estimates”) reports a median lifetime morbid risk of 7.2 per 1,000 persons, with 10% and 90% quantiles of 3.1 and 27.1 per 1,000. It describes this as an 8.7-fold difference across estimates. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“However, the most severe of all 220 disorders was schizophrenia in an acute state, with a score of 0.76.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INTRODUCTION
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- Partly supportedcites Salomon et al. 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Findings report that acute schizophrenia had the highest disability weight, 0.76, among the 220 assessed. However, the paper calls these 220 entities health states, not 220 distinct disorders; the Results note that a single disorder could have multiple severity states. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“as do immigrants (Cantor-Graae et al. 2003).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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- Supportedcites Cantor-Graae et al. 2003 source
The Results in the Abstract report higher relative risks of developing schizophrenia for both first- and second-generation immigrants in the Danish cohort. This supports the citing sentence's general statement, though the study's estimates concern people resident in Denmark by age 15. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Lawrence et al. (2010) concluded that insufficient health service for schizophrenic patients with cardiovascular disease may explain part of the increased mortality from natural causes.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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- Supportedcites Lawrence et al. 2010 source
The Schizophrenia section (p. 4) says two-thirds of excess mortality in schizophrenia is from natural causes, identifies cardiovascular disease as a major cause of death, and lists poor organization of health services among possible explanations. The Effect of Mental Illness on Physical Health Care section (p. 5) reports lower rates of cardiovascular interventions and appropriate medication among people with mental illness, consistent with the claim's qualified explanation. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Mitchell & Lord (2010) reviewed papers on invasive cardiac procedures and medication and concluded that evidence supports that deficits in quality of care contribute to higher-than-expected mortality in people with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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- Supportedcites Mitchell & Lord 2010 source
The Abstract states that indirect evidence supports the observation that deficits in quality of care contribute to higher-than-expected mortality in people with severe mental illness and schizophrenia. The Discussion conclusion adds that a causative role has not been established; the citing sentence says the evidence supports the conclusion, not that causation was proven. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Two meta-analyses (Bonfioli et al. 2012, Caemmerer et al. 2012) indicated that weight management programs could impede weight gain during antipsychotic treatment and could also be effective for weight loss.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Bonfioli et al. 2012 source
The Methods describe trials aimed at preventing weight gain or producing weight loss in patients with psychosis, and the Results state that all patients in the included studies took antipsychotics. The Discussion reports that preventive lifestyle interventions reduced weight compared with treatment as usual. Together, these passages support the claim attributed to Bonfioli et al. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Supportedcites Caemmerer et al. 2012 source
The Results (Co-primary Outcomes; page not specified) report significantly lower weight with non-pharmacological interventions than with controls. The Results (Secondary Outcomes; page not specified) also report that fewer intervention participants gained at least 7% of their weight, supporting both weight loss and prevention of weight gain during antipsychotic treatment. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“After the publication of the meta-analyses (Bonfioli et al. 2012, Caemmerer et al. 2012), Daumit et al. (2013) found further support in a randomized controlled trial for weight loss through weight management programs.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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- Supportedcites Daumit et al. 2013 source
The Methods section reports random assignment to intervention and control groups. The Discussion states that the behavioral intervention, which included weight-management counseling and group exercise, significantly reduced weight over 18 months in overweight and obese adults with serious mental illness attending psychiatric rehabilitation programs. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“In addition, suicide attempt should be considered a very important risk factor among patients with schizophrenia and other mental disorders, as underlined by the recent findings in a large Swedish study (Runeson et al. 2010).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Runeson et al. 2010 source
The Conclusion (page unavailable) states that previous suicide attempts are a strong risk factor for subsequent suicide and that coexisting psychiatric morbidity further increases the risk. The Discussion’s Interpretation (page unavailable) reports particularly high risk after certain attempts in people with psychotic or affective disorders, supporting the citing sentence’s reference to schizophrenia and other mental disorders. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“According to this theory, physiological changes associated with aging occur at an earlier age in people with schizophrenia compared to the general population (Kirkpatrick et al. 2008).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Accelerated Aging
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The paper explicitly defines its accelerated-aging hypothesis as physiological changes associated with normal aging occurring earlier in people with schizophrenia than in the general population (Key words section). The citing sentence describes that theory, rather than asserting that it has been proven. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Recently, Dutta et al. (2010) estimated a lifetime risk of suicide of 3.23% for patients 20 years after the first psychotic diagnosis.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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- Partly supportedcites Dutta et al. 2010 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Table 4 reports a 3.23% cumulative suicide risk for the entire cohort at 20 years after the first psychotic episode. It does not establish 3.23% as a lifetime risk: the paper cautions about that term, and its Results report suicides after 20 years of follow-up. The study measures time from first presentation or episode, rather than first diagnosis. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“An alternative explanation of the early excess mortality in persons with schizophrenia has been the theory of accelerated aging.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Accelerated Aging
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Kirkpatrick et al. 2008 source
The paper's opening section proposes accelerated aging as a hypothesis to explain some of the increased mortality associated with schizophrenia. The Mortality section contrasts that hypothesis with explanations such as medication effects, suicide, and poor health care. The citing sentence presents it as a theory, not an established cause. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The American Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team recommends weight management for patients with schizophrenia and a BMI higher than 25 (Dixon et al. 2010); however, it is not clear how these weight management programs should be administered.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHAT EXISTING KNOWLEDGE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? ARE CLINICAL GUIDELINES REQUIRED?
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- Supportedcites Dixon et al. 2010 source
The recommendation in the Methods section says individuals with schizophrenia who are overweight (BMI 25.0–29.9) or obese (BMI ≥30.0) should be offered a psychosocial weight-loss intervention. This supports the cited claim about weight management for patients with a BMI higher than 25. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“A similar approach focusing on obesity has been evaluated by Daumit et al. (2013), who report a 3.2 kg weight loss in a randomized controlled trial that examines the outcome of a tailored weight management program versus standard treatment in a group of patients with schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders and with a mean body mass index of 36.3 kg/m 2 .”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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“From Danish population registries, we know that approximately 1.5% of the population will get a diagnosis of schizophrenia at some point”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Thorup et al. 2007 source
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“A sharp peak occurs in the late teens and early twenties and is more pronounced among males than females.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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“The incidence declines steadily after the age of 22, and at the maximum age of this cohort, 60 to 61 years, the incidence is 0.1 new cases of schizophrenia per 1,000 years under risk in both men and women.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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“However, the data also show that these individuals want to stop smoking, eat more healthily, and be more physically active just as much as the general population does.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHAT EXISTING KNOWLEDGE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? ARE CLINICAL GUIDELINES REQUIRED?
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“They associate better health with a more meaningful daily life and better quality of life.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Barriers and Motivation for Lifestyle Changes
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“The most significant barriers to changing their lifestyle are the symptoms of the mental illness and the adverse drug effects of medical treatment, but individuals with mental illness are also challenged by a life situation characterized by social isolation and difficulties with creating a structured life.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Barriers and Motivation for Lifestyle Changes
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“Mortality rate ratio for persons with schizophrenia (solid line) in Denmark compared to the general population (reference group; dotted line).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
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“Incidence of schizophrenia among women (solid line) and men (dotted line), ages 13 to 60, per 1,000 years under risk in Denmark in the period 1995 to 2011.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
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“Incidence rate ratios of 19 somatic chronic diseases included in the Charlson Comorbidity Index among persons previously admitted with schizophrenia to a Danish psychiatric hospital compared to the general population without psychiatric hospital contact.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
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“Thus, the mortality gap not only persists but may actually have increased.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Abstract
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“High mortality is found in all age groups, resulting in a life expectancy of approximately 20 years below that of the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Abstract
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“A cornerstone study was the extensive review by Harris & Barraclough (1998), which documented excess mortality among psychiatric patients, especially patients with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Harris & Barraclough (1998) source
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“schizophrenia occurs worldwide (McGrath et al. 2008).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McGrath et al. 2008 source
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“However, some of the studies use only information on the persons with schizophrenia who died, and results should therefore be interpreted with caution.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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“An elevated mortality rate among persons with schizophrenia was indicated by cause-specific SMRs that were higher than 1, except for the SMR for cerebrovascular disease, which was based on only three studies.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Saha et al. 2007 source
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“The overall picture is that the incidence of schizophrenia varies significantly not only across different groups within a population but also between countries.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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“The results from Denmark are similar to those of studies from other countries, although some differences are noted.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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“Although it is not a common disorder, more than 1% of a population has schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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“The prognosis and outcome in persons with schizophrenia tended to be worse (including higher mortality rates) than the outcome in persons with bipolar disorder (Shorter 1997).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
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“Kraepelin's dichotomization proved later not to be entirely true because some patients with schizophrenia recovered completely”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
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“These advantages include that the method takes into account the effect of very common causes of death with relatively low excess mortality, it gives more weight to deaths occurring among younger persons (which are more common among persons with severe mental disorders than the general population), and it presents a straightforward and understandable measure of the magnitude of the excess mortality”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > EXTENT OF THE EXCESS MORTALITY How to Measure Mortality
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“The mortality rate for men with schizophrenia was 3.2 times higher than that for the general Norwegian population, and the corresponding number for women was 4.8.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INTRODUCTION
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“persons living and/or born in the city have a higher incidence (Pedersen & Mortensen 2006)”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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“males have a higher incidence of schizophrenia, males have an earlier onset (van der Werf et al. 2012)”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INCIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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“The overall SMR was 2.58, with 10% and 90% quantiles of 1.18 and 5.76, respectively.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“The cardiovascular mortality gap between persons with schizophrenia and the general population has also grown during the past few decades, according to a Danish register-based study (Laursen & Nordentoft 2011); the mortality rate ratio has increased from around 2.0 in 1994 to 3.5 in 2006 compared to the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Mortality Rate Ratios
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“a recent meta-analysis estimated that the risk of suicide was approximately 13-fold higher for persons with schizophrenia as compared to the general population (Saha et al. 2007).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > INTRODUCTION
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“In conclusion, all studies find a significant and very low life expectancy in persons with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Life Expectancy
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“Recently, it has been suggested that persons with schizophrenia are more vulnerable to chronic physical diseases; the risk of medical disease is higher, and the prognosis is poorer (Laursen et al. 2012).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“This is obviously just a mathematical thought experiment, but it nevertheless illustrates that the lowering of somatic disorders must be a combined effort of all somatic specialties.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“The results are not as clear-cut as expected because high mortality rates (from, e.g., cancer and heart disease)”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Furthermore, the paper showed that the Charlson index is twofold higher among persons with schizophrenia compared to the general population, which suggests there is an increased occurrence of somatic disorders in these individuals.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Although the prevalence of some somatic disorders (and causes of death) seems to be the same or even lower among schizophrenic patients, the risk from early death caused by other somatic disorders or suicide and accidents should be kept in mind.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Physical illnesses in persons with schizophrenia are common but are diagnosed late and treated insufficiently.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHY THE EXCESS EARLY MORTALITY?
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“Antipsychotics, in particular atypical antipsychotics, have been associated with weight gain, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and other cardiac risk factors (Newcomer 2007).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“The authors concluded that the association could be explained by the reduced tendency of patients with schizophrenia to report musculoskeletal pain (Mors et al. 1999).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Although there is increased somatic comorbidity among persons with schizophrenia, the study also showed that mortality from natural causes is extremely high in patients with schizophrenia, and this suggests that the excess mortality may be partly rooted in higher rates of somatic disorders and partly in underdetection or undertreatment of chronic disorders (Laursen et al. 2011).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“The risk of suicide and accidents among patients with schizophrenia is high.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHY THE EXCESS EARLY MORTALITY?
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“In the same way, the different causes of mortality do not contribute equally or work independently.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“A Danish study has found that the rates of invasive procedures were considerably lower and the survival after first contact to a hospital for heart disease was reduced in persons with schizophrenia compared to the general population (Laursen et al. 2009).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“High mortality rates caused by other sources would lower the risk of getting a disease (or dying from it), especially if the disease has a late onset, as is common with some cancers, for example.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Persons with schizophrenia tend to have an unhealthy lifestyle (poor diet, smoking, excess alcohol consumption, and lack of exercise).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHY THE EXCESS EARLY MORTALITY?
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“Furthermore, patients with a psychiatric disorder tend to use medical services to a lesser degree, which could lead to an increased mortality (Cradock-O' Leary et al. 2002).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Raedler (2010) reviewed the effect of antipsychotic drugs and concluded that antipsychotics increased the risk of metabolic syndrome, sudden cardiac death, and myocarditis/cardiomyopathy.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“A study from Helsinki (Lahti et al. 2012) found a 0.37-fold use of antihypertensive drugs and a 0.47-fold use of lipid-lowering drugs compared to the general population.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Poor Physical Health and Health Care
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“Antipsychotic medication may cause adverse effects, which may negatively affect mortality, but it is unclear how different antipsychotic drugs may affect the excess mortality.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“Treatment with varenicline also increased the chance of smoking cessation, although the evidence is weaker than for bupropion (Williams et al. 2012).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“In the general population in Denmark, smoking-related illnesses account for a reduction in life expectancy of 3.5 years for men and 3.0 years for women ( Juel & Sørensen 2006).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Even though we lack national statistics on smoking habits for people with schizophrenia, a number of studies indicate that smoking is far more frequent among people with schizophrenia and contributes substantially to the reduced life expectancy in this patient group.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Several investigators later concluded that Miles's estimates were most likely too high for various reasons (Blair-West et al. 1997, 1999;Bostwick & Pankratz 2000;Inskip et al. 1998;Palmer et al. 2005).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“Weight gains resulting in a BMI of 30 or more occurred among 2.73% of these patients per year during the first three years of treatment ( Jerrell et al. 2010).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“A large randomized clinical trial of first-episode patients treated with different antipsychotic drugs (Kahn et al. 2008) found that all antipsychotic drugs were associated with a greater than 7% increase in weight during the trial; proportion of patients affected ranged from 37% (ziprasidone) to 86% (olanzapine).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“This indicates that the lifestyle interventions are not only effective but are also achievable for the participants.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“In addition to the effect on weight, significant changes have been linked with other clinically relevant somatic risk factors, including the levels of body fat percentage, fasting plasma glucose, and blood fat as well as waist measurement.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“The excess risk was concluded to be partly explained by a higher frequency of cigarette smoking, although the relative contributions to cardiac risk of specific antipsychotic agents, diet, exercise, and quality of medical care remain to be clarified.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“One of the most cited papers is the review written by Miles (1977), which estimated that 15% of persons with unipolar affective disorder, 15% with alcoholism, and 10% with schizophrenia would die from suicide.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“The training was twice a week for six months, and the authors concluded that the training could prevent VO 2 max from declining.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Physical activity.
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“More studies on the efficacy of different smoking cessation methods are needed, but current evidence suggests that bupropion, varenicline, nicotine substitution, and smoking cessation programs are effective.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Several studies have investigated factors affecting the success of smoking cessation among people with schizophrenia, and some evidence suggests that both bupropion and varenicline can increase the chances of quitting smoking.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Lifestyle Factors
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“Several studies have indicated that dietary habits are partly responsible for weight gain in schizophrenia, but medication can also independently cause weight gain.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and weight.
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“However, this review was based on rather small studies with selected samples and brief follow-up periods.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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“We have included only a few of the most recent papers to illustrate the lack of studies on long-term outcomes in persons using antipsychotic drugs, which impedes the establishment of clear guidelines in the use of the drugs.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
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“These estimates are lower than reported in the most cited papers in the field, but the figures are still substantial and emphasize the continuous need for prevention of suicide among people with schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
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In the paper
“Inskip et al. (1998) estimated the lifetime risk to be 6% for affective disorder, 7% for alcohol dependence, and 4% for schizophrenia, whereas Palmer and colleagues (2005) estimated the lifetime risk to be 5.6% for schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Palmer et al. 2005 source
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In the paper
“However, it is worth noting that no solid epidemiological studies to date have tested to which extent any or all of the above-mentioned factors can explain the excess mortality in schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“However, the major sources of excess mortality have changed over the past 70 years.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The lifestyle of people with mental illness can be changed, and to a great extent these individuals also want this change.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHAT EXISTING KNOWLEDGE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? ARE CLINICAL GUIDELINES REQUIRED?
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In the paper
“Furthermore, schizophrenia has a very strong impact on income, educational attainment, marital status, and other indicators associated with health and mortality.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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In the paper
“Second, lifestyle factors such as excess alcohol consumption and tobacco use and little attention to a healthy diet are more prevalent in psychiatric patients.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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In the paper
“People suffering from mental illness encounter a number of barriers to lifestyle changes, including illness symptoms, adverse drug effects, and life situations.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHAT EXISTING KNOWLEDGE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? ARE CLINICAL GUIDELINES REQUIRED?
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In the paper
“The effect of nicotine substitution on persons with depression is the same as that on smokers without depression, corresponding to a cessation success rate of 14% to 22% after a six-month smoking cessation intervention.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
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In the paper
“In general, it has proven difficult to recruit people with bipolar disorders and ongoing depression for smoking cessation interventions, and only a very limited number of studies focus on long-term maintenance of achieved smoking cessation.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
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In the paper
“Weak evidence also indicates that payment for participation in a smoking cessation program has a positive effect, but it is uncertain whether this also applies to the long term.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The effect of varenicline is not as clear, but the literature indicates that people with schizophrenia tolerate it, which can increase the chance of smoking cessation, at least in the short term.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Mounting evidence suggests that people suffering from schizophrenia have increased morbidity and mortality.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHAT EXISTING KNOWLEDGE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? ARE CLINICAL GUIDELINES REQUIRED?
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In the paper
“Excess death following hospitalization for a mental disorder indicates not only that a current mental disorder is a risk factor contributing to death from a physical disorder, but also that the health system fails to prevent, identify, and treat physical diseases during hospitalization for a mental disorder.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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In the paper
“Evidence of the effect of bupropion and other antidepressant drugs to promote smoking cessation is not as clear but findings indicate a slightly higher tendency of smoking cessation among people with depression who took these drugs.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“We also know that a significant share of this excess mortality, which shortens life by 15 to 20 years, is caused by somatic illness linked with an unhealthy lifestyle.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > WHAT EXISTING KNOWLEDGE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? ARE CLINICAL GUIDELINES REQUIRED?
boosteddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“First, difficulties in diagnosing somatic comorbidities, undertreatment of diagnosed disorders, or even untoward effects of the treatment of schizophrenia (e.g., diabetes, obesity) are likely to contribute and could suggest possible avenues for prevention.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
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In the paper
“Although excess mortality, and to some extent excess physical morbidity, has been amply documented, only a few studies have documented the causes of this excess mortality.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > FURTHER STUDIES AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL INITIATIVES
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Moderate evidence indicates that nicotine substitution treatment increases cessation of smoking among people with previous or ongoing depression.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“In the case of people with schizophrenia, moderate evidence suggests that bupropion can nearly triple the chance of smoking cessation after six months, with no negative effects on psychotic symptoms.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Smoking
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Inskip et al. (1998) estimated the lifetime risk to be 6% for affective disorder, 7% for alcohol dependence, and 4% for schizophrenia, whereas Palmer and colleagues (2005) estimated the lifetime risk to be 5.6% for schizophrenia.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Suicide
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Inskip et al. 1998 source
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In the paper
“A number of studies indicate that health care employees with negative attitudes may actually form a barrier for lifestyle changes among people with mental illness.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Barriers and Motivation for Lifestyle Changes
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“This indicates that study participants are able to carry out the lifestyle interventions and that the interventions are effective.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and Weight
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“Outcomes are not known for nonmotivated psychiatric patients in lifestyle interventions that focus on diet.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Diet and Weight
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In the paper
“The lifestyles of the mentally ill are generally influenced by a number of dilemmas and conflicting feelings, and this implies that good intentions for a healthier lifestyle may not always result in taking action.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Barriers and Motivation for Lifestyle Changes
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The concept of schizophrenia was originally defined to include patients with especially poor outcomes.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
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In the paper
“Thus, the mortality gap not only persists but may actually even be increasing.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
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In the paper
“This group of patients still has an exceptionally short life expectancy because of very high mortality in all age groups.”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > CONCLUSION
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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The authors state this as an assumption.
No mortality occurs in the age group 0-15 years old.
“Note that we have assumed no mortality in the age group 0-15 years old.”
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The source backs part of the claim, not all of it — or backs it for a different population, condition or comparison.
In the citing paper
“While causes are multifactorial, cardiometabolic risk factors such as cardiovascular disease and obesity are recognised major contributors [1,2,10,11].”
From A systematic review of licensed weight-loss medications in treating antipsychotic-induced weight gain and obesity in schizophrenia and psychosis. (2022) · cites this paper as [1]
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn the citing paper
“Life expectancy in patients with schizophrenia is reduced by 20 years for men and 15 years for women compared to the general population.”
In the citing paper
“People with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders die earlier than their peers in the general population, with recent estimates suggesting by around 15–20 years.1–10”
From Mortality in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses: A 10-Year Follow-up of the ӔSOP First-Episode Cohort (2015) · cites this paper as [6]
In the citing paper
“Over the past decades, consistent evidence has accrued that people with psychotic disorder have higher mortality rates than the general population.1–9”
From Mortality in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses: A 10-Year Follow-up of the ӔSOP First-Episode Cohort (2015) · cites this paper as [6]
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Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medicine
“A randomized trial including 18,154 patients with schizophrenia compared the effects of ziprasidone and olanzapine (Strom et al. 2011).”
§ Excess Early Mortality in Schizophrenia > References
“Strom BL, Eng SM, Faich G, Reynolds RF, D'Agostino RB, et al. 2011. Comparative mortality associated with ziprasidone and olanzapine in real-world use among 18,154 patients with schizophrenia: the Ziprasidone Observational Study of Cardiac Outcomes (ZODIAC).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Laursen, T. M., Nordentoft, M., & Mortensen, P. B.
- Affiliations
- Aarhus University (DK)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2014-03-28
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 425-448
- ISSN
- 1548-5943 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-5951
- OpenAlex
- W2167532647
- Cited by
- 913
- References
- 132
- Citations by year
- 2026: 67 · 2025: 93 · 2024: 100 · 2023: 107 · 2022: 102 · 2021: 100 · 2020: 89 · 2019: 65 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 47 · 2016: 45 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 16
- FWCI
- 4.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Lundbeckfonden (R155-2014-1724, R155-2012-11280)
- H. Lundbeck A/S
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- schizophrenia, excess mortality, life expectancy, mortality gap, modifiable risk factors, antipsychotic adverse effects, somatic comorbidity, lifestyle factors, mortality prevention
- MeSH terms
- Accidents, Alcohol Drinking, Humans, Life Expectancy, Life Style, Mortality, Obesity, Risk Factors, Schizophrenia, Smoking, Suicide, Antipsychotic Agents, Comorbidity, Metabolic Syndrome, Health Status Disparities
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