Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Efficacy of lifestyle interventions in physical health management of patients with severe mental illness. | Chacón et al. Annals of General Psychiatry 2011 10 22 http content 10 1 22 ANNALS OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY REVIEW Open Access Efficacy of lifestyle interventions in physical health management of patients with severe mental illness Fernando Chacón 1 Fernando Mora2 Alicia Gervás-Ríos1 and Inmaculada Gilaberte1 Abstract Awareness of the importance of maintaining physical health for patients with severe mental illnesses has recently been on the increase. Although there are several elements contributing to poor physical health among these patients as compared with the general population risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as smoking diabetes mellitus hypertension dyslipidemia metabolic syndrome and obesity are of particular significance due to their relationship with mortality and morbidity. These patients present higher vulnerability to cardiovascular risk factors based on several issues such as genetic predisposition to certain pathologies poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles high proportions of smokers and drug abusers less access to regular health care services and potential adverse events during pharmacological treatment. Nevertheless there is ample scientific evidence supporting the benefits of lifestyle interventions based on diet and exercise designed to minimize and reduce the negative impact of these risk factors on the physical health of patients with severe mental illnesses. Introduction It is well known that patients with severe mental illnesses SMIs such as schizophrenia depression or bipolar disorder have worse physical health and reduced life expectancy compared to the general population 1-4 . There are data suggesting that patients with SMIs die on average between and years earlier than the general population. A recent study using years of potential life lost YPLL as a measure of premature mortality showed that the mean YPLL in patients with SMIs was compared with for the general .
