The association between mental illness and physical health is crucial as people with severe mental illness have an excess mortality of 15-20 years, largely due to physical comorbidities like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.
Severe mental illness leads to unhealthy lifestyles and medication effects, causing cardiometabolic risks to manifest earlier. This contributes to a widening mortality gap, particularly driven by cardiovascular disease.
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