The physical health of people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder is worse than that of the healthy population. People affected by this group of diseases have an increased cardiovascular mortality, attributed to a risk from 1 to 5 times higher than present modifiable coronary risk factors such as obesity, smoking, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia. Specifically, in the case of schizophrenia life expectancy is shortened by up to ten years.
This is one of the main conclusions of consensus “Cardiovascular disease and diabetes in people with severe mental illness, which in Spain is supported by the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry, together with the Spanish Society of Psychiatry, the Spanish Society of Diabetes and Spanish Society of Cardiology.
Diabetic ketoacidosis: is a real danger, contrary to what occurs with hypoglycemia, is fatal to the fetus
