Cardiovascular Risk Factors Archives

Diabetes Screening Inadequate in Mentally Ill

New research shows that despite long-standing recommendations that severely mentally ill patients who take antipsychotics undergo annual screening for diabetes […]

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Sixth Annual Chair Summit Begins This Week

This week a Master Class for Neuroscience Development called the Chair Summit takes place in Tampa, FL (Sept 26-28, 2013). […]

By R Kennedy | Addiction . ADHD . Antipsychotic medication . Anxiety Disorders . Biomarker . Bipolar Disorder . Cardiovascular Risk Factors . Chronic Pain . CME . Dementia . Depression . Diabetes . Diagnosis . Digital medicine . Drug Development . Drugs . DSM-5 . Early intervention . Education . Food . Genetics . Guideline . Imaging . Maintenance of Certification . Measurement-based care . Medical Education . Mood . MRI . Multiple sclerosis . Negative symptoms . Neuroscience . Obesity . Opioids . PET . Practice guideline . Psychosis . PTSD . Research . Schizophrenia . Smoking cessation . Social media . Stroke . Substance abuse . Transcranial magnetic stimulation . Vascular dementia

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Non-adherence to Antipsychotics and Cardiometabolic Medication Result in Health Care Utilization and Costs

A new study in Psychiatric Services examined the association between adherence to antipsychotic and cardiometabolic medication and the use of […]

By R Kennedy | Adherence . Antipsychotic medication . Cardiovascular Risk Factors . Metabolic screening . Psychosis . Schizophrenia

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Depression Increases Risk of Heart Disease Mortality in Young People

A study published in the November 2011 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, describes that the negative effects of depression […]

By R Kennedy | Cardiovascular Risk Factors . Depression . Mental health . Women

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