Increased mortality from somatic multimorbidity in patients with schizophrenia: a Danish nationwide cohort study.
P KugathasanB StubbsJ AagaardS E JensenT Munk LaursenRené Ernst NielsenPublished in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2019)
Patients with schizophrenia showed higher mortality on all levels of multimorbidity, and a doubled mortality rate across all somatic diseases, compared to the general population. The findings suggest that the clusters and trajectories of symptoms associated with schizophrenia is the main driver of the excess mortality.