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The Relationship between Premature Death and Affective Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

T. A. Kerr ,
Kurt Schapira  and
Martin Roth
T. A. Kerr
Affiliation:
Psychological Medicine Research Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Kurt Schapira
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Martin Roth
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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The relationship between mental illness and physical disease in elderly patients has been the subject of a number of studies, notably those by Kay and Roth (1955) and Roth and Kay (1956). Stenstedt (1952, 1959) reported a high mortality rate among patients with manic-depressive psychosis and involutional melancholia, which he attributed to ‘the high frequency of suicide and to the fact that several patients had died in a mental hospital’. In a survey of elderly people living in the community, Kay and Bergmann (1966) demonstrated a relationship between physical illness and diminished life expectancy on the one hand and functional psychiatric disorders on the other. Shepherd et al. (1964), in a general practice survey in London, found a 'strongly marked association between psychiatric disorder and chronic organic illness'.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 528 , November 1969 , pp. 1277 - 1282
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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