Schizophrenia Mortality: Barriers to Progress

@article{Seeman2019SchizophreniaMB,
  title={Schizophrenia Mortality: Barriers to Progress},
  author={Mary V. Seeman},
  journal={Psychiatric Quarterly},
  year={2019},
  pages={1-11}
}
  • M. Seeman
  • Published 30 May 2019
  • Medicine, Psychology
  • Psychiatric Quarterly
Individuals with schizophrenia die, on average, 20 years before their peers, with ‘natural causes’ accounting for 80% of premature deaths. The aim of this narrative review is to address this phenomenon from the perspective of known factors that contribute to long life. The relevant literature from the last decade was searched in PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Four factors have been shown to be common to centarians, people who live to be a hundred: genes, life style behaviors that favor a… 
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