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Accelerated aging in schizophrenia

Current Psychiatry. 2017 July;16(7)
By
Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
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Editor-in-Chief Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, discusses the possible causes of accelerated aging and premature mortality in younger persons with schizophrenia.

 

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