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Risk Factors
May 19, 2021

Psychiatric Disorders Linked to More Physical Disease

In an article in the journal JAMA Network Open, Leah S. Richmond-Rakerd and colleagues found that people with mental disorders had more physical disease at younger ages, they had more and longer hospitalizations and associ...
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October 17, 2016

Smoking Ban in New Jersey Jails Drastically Reduced Deaths of Inmates with Mental Illness

Policy changes by the New Jersey Department of Corrections drastically reduced the availability of tobacco products in New Jersey jails between 2005 and 2014. Prison commissaries reduced their stock of tobacco, prices incr...
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April 29, 2010

More Medical Comorbidities Among Bipolar Population

Goldstein and colleagues interpreted data from the National Epidemiological Survey in 2001-2002 that included 41,682 representative adults in the U.S. population sampled compared with 1,411 found in the community with a di...