The specificity of some somatic diseases in patients with schizophrenia
Complex «schizophrenia-somatic disorders» attracts authors` attention of a number of its distinctive features. Available published data in some cases, show significant differences in prevalence, the clinical course of a number of somatic diseases. The article presents data on the prevalence, clinical features in schizophrenia population of socially significant diseases, such as hypertension, ischemic heart disease, peptic ulcer stomach and duodenal ulcers, kidney disease, non-specific inflammatory disease of the bronchial tree, and interstitial lung tissue, and others. The data the results of research on the structure of mortality in this cohort of patients. Their deviation from the general population trends. Highlights the contradictory opinions of several authors regarding the possible causes of this evolution from somatic pathology.