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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Psychiatry Rev. 2012 Feb 1;8(1):25–36. doi: 10.2174/157340012798994867

Figure 1. Causes of Excess Death in Serious Mental Illness.

Figure 1

Vascular disease is the leading cause of excess mortality in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Data for figure aggregated from similarly designed studies in Sweden by Osby et al. Archives of General Psychiatry 2001 and Osby et al. Schizophrenia Research 2000.