Open AccessPsychiatric Hospital Admissions, Behavioral Risk Factors, and All-Cause Mortality
Author(s) -
Mark Hamer,
Emmanuel Stamatakis,
Andrew Steptoe
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.168.22.2474
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , odds ratio , psychosocial , body mass index , psychiatry , demography , socioeconomic status , mental illness , mental health , population , environmental health , sociology
Emerging research is beginning to uncover a high prevalence of modifiable risk factors in patients with severe mental illness. We examined whether the association between episodes of psychiatric illness that involved hospitalization and all-cause mortality is mediated by behavioral risk factors.
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