• DOI:10.1007/s11126-019-09645-0
Corpus ID: 170078453

Schizophrenia Mortality: Barriers to Progress

@article{Seeman2019SchizophreniaMB,
  title={Schizophrenia Mortality: Barriers to Progress},
  author={M. Seeman},
  journal={Psychiatric Quarterly},
  year={2019},
  pages={1-11}
}

M. Seeman

Published 2019

Psychology, Medicine

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… CONTINUE READING

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