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The normal life expectancy of a Dane is around 80 years of age. But if a person suffers from a serious psychiatric illness requiring psychiatric hospitalisation, life expectancy is dramatically shortened by 15 years for women and 20 years for men, according to a new Nordic survey.
The survey of 270,000 people who were admitted to a psychiatric hospital at least once between 2000-2006 shows that the life expectancy of psychiatric patients is around the same as the World Bank’s expectancy figures for Sudan (61), Pakistan (65) and Yemen (65).
