Severe mental illness, race/ethnicity, multimorbidity and mortality following COVID-19 infection: nationally representative cohort study.

Jayati Das-Munshi Ioannis BakolisLaia BécaresJacqueline DyerMatthew HotopfJosephine OclooRobert J Stewart Ruth Stuart Alexandru Dregan

Published in: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science (2023)

Following COVID-19 infection, patients with SMI were at an elevated risk of death, further magnified by multimorbidity. Black Caribbean/Black African people had a higher risk of death from COVID-19 than White people, and this inequity was similar for the SMI group and the control group.

Keyphrases

mental illness
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coronavirus disease
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cardiovascular events
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cardiovascular disease