The News:
Mental illness reduces life expectancy, study finds
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
Serious mental illness can lower a person's life expectancy by 25 years, according to a study that Colorado doctors say the state should consider as it drafts a health insurance plan. The study says the quarter-century loss of life expectancy is due mostly to increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Read the research behind this story in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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