If anyone dies - the question is when and what the cause is, and how the quality of life has been. Patients with bipolar disorder and patients with schizophrenia, most often comprising the group of patients defined as severe mental illness (SMI), have an increased mortality rate in comparison to the general population (1,2). Despite differences between disorders there are similar patterns of increasing relative mortality rates over time for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (2). Current data supports the largest gap in mortality rate in younger persons with SMI as compared to the background population, as in this age group death is a relatively uncommon event in the general population (1).

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患有严重精神疾病的受试者的过高死亡率：一个令人严重关注的问题。

如果有人去世-问题是何时，什么原因以及生活质量如何。与一般人群相比，双相情感障碍患者和精神分裂症患者（通常是定义为严重精神疾病（SMI）的患者组）的死亡率增加（1,2）。尽管疾病之间存在差异，但双相情感障碍和精神分裂症的相对死亡率随时间增加的趋势相似（2）。目前的数据支持与背景人群相比，SMI年轻人的死亡率存在最大差距，因为在这一年龄段，死亡是普通人群中相对罕见的事件（1）。