Physical healthcare in severe mental illness

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					Introduction
				
					Section 1: Physical morbidity and treatment of disease in people with severe mental illness
				
					Section 2: Obesity, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
				
					Section 3: Sexual dysfunction, EPSEs and cardiovascular risk
				
					Section 4: smoking, drug and alcohol abuse
				
					Section 5: Medication
				
					Summary

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Physical healthcare in severe mental illness

By Dr Steve Brown

Physical healthcare in severe mental illness Psychiatric populations show high rates of significant medical disease – about 50% of in-patients in most studies. They also tend to receive poorer treatment for physical disease than the rest of the population.

There is ongoing discussion about how best to co-ordinate effective treatment of physical disease in people with severe mental illness. However, there is no doubt that psychiatrists must be competent in the recognition and management of physical diseases – especially those which are particularly common in the population which they treat.

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