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This mortality gap has been estimated at 10 18 years for women and 8 19 years for men [ 2, 4- 6].
Objective To investigate whether the mortality gap has reduced in recent years between people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and the general population.
41 Our results reinforce the need for further research in the UK as the mortality gap has not decreased and is increasing in some groups, such as those aged over 65.
Nonetheless, as stated earlier, this mortality gap has remained stubbornly unchanged [ 10], and may even have increased over time [ 5, 11], despite developments in mental health services and the introduction of better tolerated antipsychotic agents.
This mortality gap has been widely attributed to high prevalence rates of medical comorbidities, mainly the metabolic syndrome (MetS), which is a clustering of conditions that increase cardiovascular risk including visceral obesity, impaired glucose metabolism, lipid profile disturbances and hypertension.
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Together these show that, while the mortality gap might have narrowed over the century, the relation between the extremes of deprivation and mortality is as strong today as it was a century ago.
Although we have shown that the relative deprivation gap in neonatal mortality has generally widened over time, the absolute gap has reduced.
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The gap has been widening.
This gap has widened sharply.
But the gap has closed.
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