Improving life expectancy in people with serious mental illness: should we place more emphasis on primary prevention?
Br J Psychiatry
; 211(4): 194-197, 2017 Oct.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28882826
People with serious mental illness have a reduced life expectancy that is partly attributable to increased cardiovascular disease. One approach to address this is regular physical health monitoring. However, physical health monitoring is poorly implemented in everyday clinical practice and there is little evidence to suggest that it improves physical health. We argue that greater emphasis should be placed on primary prevention strategies such as assertive smoking cessation, dietary and exercise interventions and more judicious psychotropic prescribing.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Prevención Primaria
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Esperanza de Vida
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Trastornos Mentales
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Guideline
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Br J Psychiatry
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido