Physical illness and schizophrenia: a review of the literature

By S. Leucht, Tonja Burkard, J. Henderson, M. Maj, N. Sartorius. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2007

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Effects of antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilizers on risk for physical diseases in people with schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder (2015, background): “Patients with SMI are at increased risk for physical diseases and related earlier mortality (11,280).”
Schizophrenia, "just the facts" 4. Clinical features and conceptualization. (2009, positive): “…2005; Palmer et al., 2005), increased rates of a range of comorbid medical and psychiatric illnesses (Bermanzohn et al., 2000; Carney et al., 2006; Leucht et al., 2007; Newcomer and Hennekens, 2007), reduced likelihood of employment, and impairments in quality of life (Folsom et al., 2005; Eack…”
Mental illness-related stigma in healthcare (2017, background): “Studies also demonstrate that persons with mental illness histories receive poorer quality care for their physical health problems.(29,35,37,41,42) This is believed to occur largely through a process of diagnostic and treatment overshadowing, whereby physical symptoms are misattributed to a patient’”
Physical illness in patients with severe mental disorders. I. Prevalence, impact of medications and disparities in health care (2011, background): “cades (15), and still is today (7,34-39,40,41).”