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Aoife Carolan1,2, Caroline Hynes3,4, Stephen McWilliams3,5
1Saint John of God Hospital, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Ireland. aoife.carolan@sjog.ie.
Abstract:
People with severe mental illness (SMI) have a shorter life expectancy than the rest of the population. Multimorbidity and poorer physical health contribute to this health inequality. Cardiometabolic multimorbidity confers a significant mortality risk in this population. Multimorbidity is not restricted to older people and people with SMI present with multimorbidity earlier in life. Despite this, most screening, prevention and treatment strategies target older people. People under 40 years with SMI are underserved by current guidelines for cardiovascular risk assessment and reduction. Research is needed to develop and implement interventions to reduce cardiometabolic risk in this population.
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