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An audit to assess whether patients under the care of a community mental health team who are taking clozapine are having their lipid profile checked annually and are given lifestyle advice and have had a QRISK3 assessment

AIMS: ‘All cause’ mortality is higher among patients with serious mental illness than the general population and a significant contributor from this is cardiovascular disease. Mean triglyceride levels have been shown to double and cholesterol levels to increase by at least 10% after 5 years’ treatme...

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Autores principales: Linley-Adams, Elisabeth, Harris, Bethan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8770050/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.272