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Researchers Examine Premature Mortality Among People With Serious Mental Illness
July 1, 2010 by NewsBot
People with serious mental illness lose significantly more years of potential life than the general population, according to research presented in the July issue of Psychiatric Services, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Years of potential life lost, or YPLL, which is based on U.S. life expectancy in the year of death, is a widely used measure of premature mortality...


