Journal article
Potential gains in life expectancy from reducing amenable mortality among people diagnosed with serious mental illness in the United Kingdom
Abstract
BACKGROUND: To estimate the potential gain in life expectancy from addressing modifiable risk factors for all-cause mortality (excluding suicide and deaths from accidents or violence) across specific serious mental illness (SMI) subgroups, namely schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar disorders in a Western population.
METHODS: We have used relative risks from recent meta-analyses to estimate the population attribution fraction …
Authors
Dregan A; McNeill A; Gaughran F; Jones PB; Bazley A; Cross S; Lillywhite K; Armstrong D; Smith S; Osborn DPJ
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 15, No. 3,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0230674
ISSN
1932-6203