Individuals with comorbid mental disorders and general medical conditions had increased risk for premature mortality, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.
“Our findings highlight that individuals with mental disorder–general medical condition (GMC) comorbidity have an increased risk of dying; their life expectancy is shorter than that of both the entire population and people with either mental disorders or GMCs only,” Natalie C. Momen, PhD, an epidemiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, and colleagues wrote.
Momen and colleagues designed a population-based