A new study has found that people may have four times the risk of death from a sudden heart attack SchizophreniaThe study was conducted by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and published in the journal Heart.

Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that affects the way people think, feel, and behave. This condition can result in hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking and behavior. When people hallucinate, they see things or hear sounds that others cannot see. On the other hand, delusions are beliefs that are not true.

People who have other types of mental illness, such as depression, still have double the risk of death regardless of age, the study said, suggesting that an 18-year-old is 10 years less likely than anyone else. can hope to live. Same age without mental health problems.

The researchers said that having a mental condition increases the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest, but it is not clear whether the risk lasts for one’s lifetime. For the study, researchers looked at deaths of Danish residents aged 18 to 90 in 2010. More than 45,000 people died that year, of which 6,002 were classified as sudden cardiovascular deaths, 3,683 in the general population and 2,319 of them in the general population. With a mental illness.

The team found that overall, the incidence of sudden death from heart attack was 6.5 times higher in people with mental disorders than in the general population.

The risk of death was twice as high in people with depression, 3 times higher in people with bipolar disorder, and 4.5 times higher in people with schizophrenia, the researchers said. Poor mental health was found to be associated with a doubling of the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest, regardless of age, gender and co-existing medical conditions.

In addition, mental health conditions were also significantly associated with death from other causes, with an approximately 3 times higher risk and shorter lifespan than the general population.

The researchers also estimated that a 70-year-old person with a mental health condition could expect to live 10 more years, while a person without such a condition could expect to live 14 more years. Sudden death due to cardiac arrest also accounts for 13 percent of the discrepancy in shorter lifespan among people with poor mental health, the team said.

Although they did not accept any cause-and-effect link, the researchers proposed that the unhealthy lifestyles that people with mental health conditions are likely to follow, along with the side effects of medications, predispose such individuals to developing metabolic disorders, including high blood pressure. Can make you sensitive. Heart disease.

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