Mental Illness

Individuals with serious mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia may experience greater 10- and 30-year CV risk compared with those without a serious mental illness, researchers reported.

In this Healio video series, which focuses on cultural competency in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Sharan Khela, an IBD patient advocate who has Crohn’s disease, shares her story and cultural stigmas she has had to overcome.

Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, discussed one of his presentations from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference in a video interview with Healio.

People with severe mental illness in an Israeli public psychiatric hospital opted to be vaccinated against COVID-19 based on their opinion of the vaccine, not distress level, researchers wrote in a study published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Patients hospitalized with serious mental illness had a cardiometabolic profile that conferred increased risk for diabetes and hypertension-related mortality, according to results of an observational study published in Psychiatry Research.

A physician’s choice of words can make a difference in a patient’s chances of overcoming mental illness and substance use disorders, National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora D. Volkow, MD, told Healio Primary Care.

While the prevalence of chronic kidney disease is higher in patients with severe mental illness compared with the general population, limited research has made it difficult for staff to detect key markers of mental illness, a speaker said.

In this episode, psychiatrist Michael F. Myers, MD, discusses the use of couples therapy in households comprised of single- and dual-physician families, the rate of depression among members of the medical field, and more.

Patients with a severe mental illness had increased risk for mortality after MI compared with those without a diagnosis of mental illness, according to results published in BMC Medicine.

Older adults with schizophrenia had an increased risk for a dementia diagnosis, according to results of a retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.