Jan. 27 (UPI) —<\/span> People with mental health disorders are up to twice as likely to die earlier from chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes than those without them, a study published Thursday by PLOS Medicine found.<\/p>\n Among people with psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, substance use disorder and schizophrenia, 21% died within five years of being diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes or breathing problems, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the data showed.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Of those without diagnosed mental health disorders, 9% died within five years of learning they had one of these chronic conditions, the researchers said.<\/p>\n Compared with unaffected siblings, people with mental health disorders were about seven times more likely to die within five years of being diagnosed with a chronic physical health condition and nearly nine times more likely to die by suicide within that time frame, according to the researchers.\n<\/p>\n Of all the participants in the study, 7% died of any cause within five years of being diagnosed with a chronic condition and 0.3% died by suicide, they said.<\/p>\n “We used electronic health records to investigate over 1 million patients diagnosed with chronic lung diseases, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes,” study co-author Dr. Seena Fazel said in a press release.\n<\/p>\n “More than 7% of the patients died of any cause within five years and 0.3% died from suicide, risks that were more than doubled in patients with psychiatric comorbidities,” said Fazel, a professor of forensic psychiatry at the University of Oxford in England.\n<\/p>\n One in five American adults has a mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.<\/p>\n Recent research has linked inflammation seen in people with mental health disorders with a higher risk for other health problems, including COVID-19.<\/p>\n The findings are based on an analysis of data from national registries in Sweden that included information on more than 1 million people born between 1932 and 1995 who had been diagnosed with chronic lung diseases, heart disease and diabetes.\n<\/p>\n About one-third of the participants had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder during their lifetimes, the researchers said.<\/p>\n People with substance use disorder were up to 10 times more likely to die within five years of being diagnosed with a chronic physical health condition, the data showed.<\/p>\n In addition, those depression had a seven-fold higher risk for death within five years of receiving a diagnosis.<\/p>\n Improved assessment, treatment and follow-up care for those with mental health disorders could reduce the risk for early death from chronic conditions, Fazel and his colleagues said.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People with mental health disorders are at increased risk for death from chronic health conditions, according to a new study. Photo by cocoparisienne\/Pixabay Jan. 27 (UPI) — People with mental health disorders are up to twice as likely to die earlier from chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes than those without them, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[371,3395,1363,3398,176,48,177,3399,3116,425,28],"class_list":["post-768846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-death","tag-diabetes","tag-disease","tag-disorders","tag-finds","tag-heart","tag-higher","tag-linked","tag-psychiatric","tag-risk","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nPeople with mental health disorders are at increased risk for death from chronic health conditions, according to a new study. Photo by cocoparisienne\/Pixabay<\/div>\n\n