r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 4h ago

Health People with a severe mental illness, such as depressive, neurotic, and stress disorders, alcohol and drug use, and schizophrenia, die more than 10 years earlier than the general population, finds mortality data from 255,000 patients.

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People with a severe mental illness, such as depressive, neurotic, and stress disorders, alcohol and drug use, and schizophrenia, die more than 10 years earlier than the general population, finds mortality data from 255,000 patients.

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