Cardiometabolic and inflammatory changes in serious mental illness: descriptive and predictive work, including linked physical health data.
People experiencing serious mental illness – particularly depression and schizophrenia – show higher levels of inflammatory and fat-related measures than similar people from the general population.We will use the CRIS linkage with general hospital information to investigate why people with a serious mental illness, in particular schizophrenia, fall ill or die earlier than people without one.